“The real condemnation of the views of Mr. Polakis is not only his self-evident removal, but also the open condemnation of the views expressed by him,” Nea Dimokratia said in a statement.

“In addition to removing Mr. Polakis, we demand the removal from the SYRIZA ballot of Mr. Pappas, who was convicted of dereliction of duty. The exclusion of Mr. Polakis alone is not enough,” ND continues in the same statement, amid the removal of Pavlos Polakis from his position as head of the SYRIZA transparency department and his appeal to the party’s ethics committee.

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“In its statement, SYRIZA mentions various procedural and communication issues regarding the damage inflicted on it, but does not find a word to say about the rules and the substance of what Mr. Polakis called unacceptable. After all, the attack on the judiciary was not Mr. Polakis’ delusion, but the line of SYRIZA after the unanimous decision of Mr. Pappas. By all appearances, attacks on justice and on journalists are Mr. Tsipras’s official line, which Mr. Polakis expresses much more rudely. The real condemnation of Mr. Polakis’s opinions is not only his self-evident deletion, but also his open condemnation of the opinions expressed by him. In addition to removing Mr. Polakis, we demand the removal from the SYRIZA ballot of Mr. Pappas, who was convicted of dereliction of duty. It’s not enough just to remove Mr. Polakis»