The new SYRIZA with an increased dose of ‘PASOK’ and a sweeping dominance of Presidents – The background

By Niki Zorba

It may have taken three days for the counting of votes for the new members of the Central Committee to be completed (xThe results of the vote were announced in the afternoon) but the picture was already visible on Monday: Presidents and Pasokens “scanned” the preferences of party members and the new SYRIZA, as reflected in its new Central Committee, has the seal of Alexis Tsipras.

Efi Ahtsioglou’s first, the election to very high positions pasokogenon (Xenogiannakopoulou, Ragousis), presidential (Pappa, Spirtzi, Dourou), the rewarding of the members in Iliopoulos-Tzanakopoulos and the dynamic entry of Dionysis Temponera (labor expert excelled “in the new internal party scene.

“Umbrella” collected about 25% in a percentage within the JV, that is, as much as it earned roughly as a percentage at the party congress. The SYRIZA base jointly confirmed the power correlations of the conference leaving except first places prominent representatives of the Umbrella. Euclid Tsakalotos, Nikos Filis, Nikos Voutsis, Panos Skourletis were elected to the Central Committee, but with individual performance much lower than those recorded at the previous SYRIZA congress in 2016, where everyone was elected in the top ten, winning – personally delegates (as there was no organizational Umbrella shape.)

“Another party”

SYRIZA today is another party, said Alexis Tsipras himself on Sunday night, in his statement in which he celebrated his participation in the internal party process and his (re) election by more than 150 thousand votes.

Indeed it is, since after the conference, for a month, Mr. Tsipras brought to the ballot box and the party registers about 110,000 newmembers (172,000 in total, along with those who had registered before the congress), personal votes of the president of SYRIZA in order to support him and the plan of “transformation and enlargement” of the party that he had announced on the night of the 2019 national elections, in his statement after the defeat.

Quotas, whining and the look at the meeting of the CoE

The bitterness, the whining and the blaming of executives certainly did not disappear, whether they managed to be elected to the Central Committee or were left out, with the main objections being “prevalence of mechanisms” and quotas, as some of all trends, numerically managed to get elected but were “eaten” by the quota cutter: Either 50% in favor of women or in favor of Allies and enlargement.

The internal party scene is not going to calm down in the next few days either, not least until the first meeting of the new SYRIZA Central Committee takes place next weekend. Where its members will be invited to elect the new political council and the party secretary.

The possibility is wide open Dimitris Tzanakopoulos to remain secretarycredited with the success of the conference but also of the internal party process unprecedented for SYRIZA, in case, however, that he does not want to remain in this post (a final discussion has not yet taken place with Alexis Tsipras), new SYRIZA secretaries have been heard her names Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou and Olga Gerovasili.