SYRIZA Conference: Z. Zaef is present – Messages from ‘Umbrella’ through P. Skourletis

By Niki Zorba

The Prespa Agreement undoubtedly cost SYRIZA elections, but it was never included in the party’s analysis as a mistake “which cost the main opposition party power (as, for example, taxation).

On the contrary, at every opportunity Alexis Tsipras returns publicly to the Agreement with Northern Macedonia, referring to it majestically and proudly as foreign policy dispute resolution model. Therefore, at the “new beginning” conference of SYRIZA, it is not at all strange that the former Social Democrat, the neighboring Prime Minister, Zoran Zaef, was invited and is expected to attend.

SYRIZA, after all, not only does it not operate defensively against Prespes but it has gone on the counterattack against the N.D. talking about “helmets” he wore to win the elections and mockery of voters. He will continue in this tone, he is sure, during the work of his third conference which starts tomorrow.

Asking for “solvency”

Beyond that, the path that Alexis Tsipras will take at the intra-party level in the four days that the congress will last, which will ratify his changes for the election of a president and a central committee from the grassroots, does not hide any surprises.

THE His sovereignty is given so “battleAccording to Koumoundourou, the conference will also focus on the agenda of “political change”, as SYRIZA talks about anyway. government countdown and its irreversible deterioration.

THE intra-party opposition (or minority) however, does not give up her positions and sends a message to the other side of the conference about her own disputes.

Yesterday, he did it in an interview (first program) Panos Skourletisone of the top executives of Umbrella and parliamentary representative of SYRIZA. He set the entire agenda of criticism of the leadership – the majority, announcing in advance that these will be discussed at the conference.

The SYRIZA MP spoke about “regaining solvency” (he has repeatedly raised this issue as a Euclid Tsakalotos), for a lack of self-criticism that cost SYRIZA, for a “left party” and not a social democratic one and for the political debate that should be dominant in the congress in relation to the big issues of the situation and not for the presidential election processes – KE which is not the “major”, as he said.

The messages of the Umbrella through P. Skourletis:

1. Immediately after the loss of governance we had to sit down to discuss in a more detailed way and draw conclusions about the period of our own governance. To tell the world “there we made a mistake, there we succeeded” he said (ERT first program). “This did not happen and in politics some things have to be done at the right time. We should have talked more in depth, we were afraid of it collectively and it cost us.

2. I have argued that it is not possible – as is not the case in any other part of the world – for a conference to conclude its discussions, to formulate the framework of directions for the next period and this should not be accompanied by the election of a Central Commission to implement these guidelines. This is how it’s done.

3 .. Today we have a government that is retreating naughtily and a SYRIZA that is gaining something but has not developed the momentum we would like and this is an object of discussion in the Conference as well “.

4. The insiders of SYRIZA will have an interest in the public opinion if they look “outwards”, that is, if a discussion that takes place between the members of the party in the context of an internal party process is an object that includes at its core the big problems That is, we live today, that is, war, accuracy, energy crisis, pandemic, inequalities.

5. “SYRIZA is a party of the modern Left and not of the Center Left, it is a member of the European left family, it is not a formation that is identified with the concept of the Democratic Party. However, it wants with its proposals to be a body of the wider progressive That’s something he has achieved in practice since 2012. I think we have answered these questions. If anyone has something else in mind, let them tell us, but no such thing has been said.