Nikos Pappas

Former SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis took to social media late on Thursday to condemn "unbelievable provocations - from fake dialogues to fake invitations."
 
Kasselakis' post was published on social media during an emergency meeting of the party's political secretariat and as a small group of people gathered outside SYRIZA headquarters to protest against his removal.
 

The issue of who holds legal and administrative responsibility within SYRIZA after Stefanos Kasselakis’ dismissal has been raised by his team through an official leak concerning today’s developments, shortly before the emergency meeting of the Political Secretariat.

The Ethics, Statute Implementation, and Certification Committee (EDEKAP) of SYRIZA has decided to convene an emergency meeting of the party’s Political Secretariat today at 8:00 PM. The meeting will address the atmosphere of dissent regarding the decision of the Central Committee to remove Stefanos Kasselakis from his leadership role.

SYRIZA’s top officials are set to face the new reality following Stefanos Kasselakis’s removal from the leadership of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, as the Political Secretariat meets today at 4 p.m. Tensions remain high within the party.

For now, Stefanos Kasselakis is keeping quiet, a day after being ousted from SYRIZA’s leadership by a decision from the party’s Central Committee. His office in Koumoundourou has been locked, and he hasn’t met with even his closest associates.

The dismissal of Stefanos Kasselakis from the position of SYRIZA president by an enhanced majority of the Central Committee (163 yes and 123 no and null/blank votes) leads the main opposition party into new internal elections within a year. At the same time, it brings Alexis Tsipras back to the forefront, who played a role in both the election of Kasselakis and his removal a year later.

SYRIZA’s president, Stefanos Kasselakis, ultimately did not take up the challenge, as despite the requests from Polakis, Gerovasili, and the ’87’ to appeal to the base for a leadership election, he referred any internal

The meeting of SYRIZA’s Political Secretariat began shortly before 2 PM and is crucial for the party, as it will discuss the changes proposed by Stefanos Kasselakis to the party’s Constitution and its name.

Party leader Stefanos Kasselakis, facing heavy internal criticism for his proposed organizational changes to SYRIZA, remains determined to push the party into a new phase, even considering changing its name. These proposals have sparked strong reactions, even from long-time supporters, increasing Kasselakis’s sense of political isolation.

As main opposition SYRIZA heads to its congress this weekend, the most difficult one of recent years, there has been no letup in the tension between its leadership and the internal opposition.