G. Dragasakis: Changes and innovations in the statute are necessary and important

“Necessary and important” characterized the changes and innovations that must be made in the statute of the party, the coordinator of the statute committee of SYRIZA-PS, Giannis Dragasakis.

Speaking at the conference, he said that we are at the beginning of a “new political cycle and a new beginning” and that it is necessary “to see today’s tasks in relation to yesterday’s experience and tomorrow’s strategic goals”.

Specifically, he referred to the “main reasons for the delays in the organizational development of SYRIZA in the past”, saying that “the speed of developments and government tasks explain much of the delay”. However, he pointed out that “apart from these objective reasons, the low political commitment for the creation of a modern mass left-wing party of active members is also responsible. […] “And the main responsibility for this belongs to the leading organs of the party and consequently to all of us.”

“We all wanted a massive, left-wing democratic party, but we did not do what was needed and we could do in a planned and binding way,” said Mr. Dragasakis, adding that this low political commitment is also reflected in the relaxed attitude towards implementation. of the statute “as” many articles of the existing statute were not applied “.

“Despite the steps that have been taken, the organized SYRIZA-PS remains inconsistent, not only with the electoral, but also with the social SYRIZA” he said, and added that in the Statute committee he chairs, it was found that “there are many things we can to do to make the operation of the organizations more substantial, the integration of new members easier, the democracy more essential “.

In this context, he referred to the general principles that govern the proposals of the competent Statute Committee: “Quantitative and qualitative strengthening of SYRIZA-PS, through the integration of new members and the creation of new organizations, utilizing the use of new technologies.” , “establishing a party of active members rather than inanimate lists of names or members of the disposable”, taking measures “against discrimination within the party, for equal representation between the sexes” and finally, avoiding the pathogens of the major governing parties “unfold in electoral mechanisms, parties of actors and party leaders, dependent on state resources and private interests.”

“The Commission’s proposals are aware of the fact that no party is invulnerable to such dangers, especially if it claims or exercises power, which is why we are looking for filters and embankments. We suggest, for example, a ceiling on the participation of MPs, government and government officials. in the party organs, limits on the consecutive terms for public office and party organs, binding and universal application of the statute without windows and exceptions, standing Statute Committee, substantive responsibilities in the Ethics committee and its election by the congress, so as not to be influenced by influences “, noted G. Dragasakis.

Moreover, the former vice-president of the SYRIZA government stated that the party managed to “create a new left-wing strategy beyond the experience of the so-called ‘existing socialism’ regimes and the management, and under neoliberal hegemony, social democracy”. He referred to the four years of SYRIZA-PS rule, saying that in an extremely critical moment of social impoverishment and political disenfranchisement, as fascism raised its head in the country and raiding battalions threshed in the neighborhoods, SYRIZA was the people’s way out of the crisis. “and called on all party members to be proud of what the party has achieved, both as a government and as an opposition.

However, he assessed that as a society we are “in front of a new uphill” as we are called to face new crises and threats. He therefore appealed to the party members “not to be complacent, not to take the popular vote for granted and, above all, to strengthen their ties with society.”

Source: AMPE