SYRIZA leader Famellos urges leftist unity after Tsipras resignation

SYRIZA person Sokratis Famellos has described erstwhile premier curate Alexis Tsipras’ resignation from parliament connected Monday arsenic “very significant” and reflecting “a antithetic perspective,” while emphasizing that the two “will not beryllium opponents.”

Famellos underscored the “need to flooded the fragmentation of the progressive space” and called for “collaborations and a communal ballot of the progressive forces against the Right.”

He criticized the Mitsotakis medication arsenic “a authorities of scandals, corruption, and injustice,” stressing that “the captious contented for society is for the state to get free of this authorities arsenic σύντομα arsenic possible.”

Referencing Tsipras, Famellos continued: “We whitethorn presently person antithetic views connected however this will beryllium achieved. But we will not beryllium opponents,” adding that “citizens request associated action, some wrong and extracurricular Parliament… and successful this effort, nary 1 is redundant.”

Tsipras’ determination has fueled speculation that the erstwhile premier minister, who led Greece from 2015 to 2019, whitethorn beryllium preparing to motorboat a caller center-left party. He stepped down arsenic SYRIZA president successful June 2023, σύντομα aft dense defeats successful snap elections. Famellos has headed SYRIZA since past November.

Earlier Monday, Alexis Charitsis, person of the New Left party, a SYRIZA splinter party, called Tsipras’ resignation “a idiosyncratic choice, which is wholly respected,” while urging practice among progressive forces.

Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis downplayed the development, calling Tsipras’ departure “parliamentarily irrelevant,” noting helium had not addressed parliament for much than two years.