SYRIZA: Kasselakis counts his wounds, shadow president is Pappas opposed by Polakis, Famellos & the “87”

Trench warfare lasted until the aboriginal hours of contiguous successful SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance, arsenic the six-hour gathering of the Parliamentary Group was not capable to defuse interior tensions but alternatively deepened the rift betwixt the enactment leader, Stefanos Kasselakis, and cardinal erstwhile interior supporters.

Apart from Pavlos Polakis, who stated that helium is connected the verge of making ‘major decisions,’ arsenic helium commented connected societal media aboriginal this greeting amid the backdrop of a divided successful SYRIZA’s Parliamentary Group, Sokratis Famellos, until precocious the person of the Parliamentary Group, was added to the important losses for Stefanos Kasselakis yesterday.

From astonishment to entrapment

The request for changes successful the functioning of SYRIZA PS’s parliamentary radical nether the enactment enactment was the crushed down the dismissal of Mr. Famellos from the presumption of caput of the authoritative absorption successful Parliament. Clearly displeased by the announcement of his replacement by Mr. Kasselakis, Sokratis Famellos was the 1 who amazed Mr. Kasselakis astatine the extremity of yesterday when, upon proceeding of Nikos Pappas’s assignment arsenic the caller President of the Parliamentary Group, Mr. Famellos declared, ‘I volition not resign.’ However, contempt Mr. Kasselakis’s effort to enforce his docket and his power wrong the party, Mr. Famellos was not caught disconnected defender by his replacement and was reportedly determined to respond to Mr. Kasselakis’s decision, which helium did, taking a enactment stance.

As helium explained successful a station successful the aboriginal hours, ‘The connection to alteration the presidency, alternatively of correcting past mistakes and addressing the existent problems we have, makes things overmuch worse,’ concluding that ‘real problems cannot beryllium covered up by surprises and dismissals. Nor tin we lick problems by creating interior enemies.’ This was particularly the lawsuit since Sokratis Famellos had importantly contributed to giving Stefanos Kasselakis invaluable clip successful the enactment of SYRIZA PS when, astatine the Congress past February, with a statement connection on with Giorgos Tsipras and Nikos Pappas, they averted a confrontation betwixt the existent President and Olga Gerovasili.

At the aforesaid time, the information that Sokratis Famellos was warmly applauded by thousands of delegates astatine the February Congress did not spell unnoticed by Koumoundourou, nor that his beingness astatine the helm of SYRIZA PS’s Parliamentary Group was wide accepted by the overwhelming bulk of MPs and society. As a result, Mr. Famellos was not invited to each enactment bodies recently, specified arsenic the Executive Office, and felt the beingness of Stefanos Kasselakis connected societal media during captious parliamentary debates erstwhile helium was astatine the podium articulating positions connected behalf of SYRIZA PS.

Even though Koumoundourou did not look favorably connected Mr. Famellos’s enactment beingness astatine the apical of the Parliamentary Group, helium had not fixed immoderate crushed to beryllium questioned oregon sidelined by the existent President. Following yesterday’s developments, however, adjacent neutral enactment observers pointed retired that the erstwhile person of the Parliamentary Group of SYRIZA PS and erstwhile interior state of Stefanos Kasselakis has laid the groundwork, if not acceptable course, for the enactment of SYRIZA PS, should the succession process unfastened with a question of nary confidence.

It is nary secret, aft all, that Sokratis Famellos was being approached since past summertime arsenic a imaginable successor to Alexis Tsipras. After his quality astatine yesterday’s gathering of the SYRIZA PS Parliamentary Group, helium could rally those who voted against the President’s connection and person importantly strengthened their forces.

The “87” summation strength

Specifically, the ‘Movement of 87,’ which initially comprised of 7 MPs, saw its parliamentary forces scope 12 yesterday, with 4 further MPs declaring present, and Alexis Tsipras was absent. Given that Popi Tsapanidou did not ballot arsenic she has not yet been sworn successful arsenic an MP, circles of the ‘87’ conveyed successful the aboriginal hours that ‘Kasselakis is simply a president without a bulk successful the Parliamentary Group,’ having 17 retired of 35 MPs, arsenic they noted.

Responding to the ‘87,’ sources from Koumoundourou countered that ‘The President has a immense bulk astatine the grassroots. Only this bulk counts,’ concluding that ‘if the radical of 87—or whoever they are—wishes, fto them situation him astatine the Central Committee.’ However, this remark gave the content of acknowledging the dynamics described by the ‘87,’ opening, for the archetypal time, the anticipation of a instrumentality to the polls from Koumoundourou’s side, fixed that its enactment had conveyed each these days that they bash not privation to ‘trouble’ the SYRIZA PS supporters with caller elections.