After leaving, Thanasis Oikonomou told the chambers that “apparently we were forced to abandon a very large group of KE members who support Stefanos Kasselakis’ candidacy, because the procedure that was followed is absolutely trivial”.
Continuing, he said: “The proof of the triviality is that they gave the floor to candidates who we don’t know if they are candidates, such as the candidacy of Mr. Gletsos, Mr. Faradouris, and even Mr. Famellos, they are not official appointments.”
“They are afraid of the party base and congress”
Thanos Moraitis, also from the group of Stefanos Kasselakis supporters, said: “Of course some are afraid of the members, they are afraid of the base of the SYRIZA party and what they organized since yesterday was a method to postpone the conference because they are not just afraid of the members, but also of the conference. we denounced it today as a process that we never expected to see in a democratic left, and we left the central committee. However, we are in the battle for SyRiza’s great open democratic conference that will give all the answers to all the strategies and all those that are happening at the moment and that mainly harm our members and our party base”.