A few hours after Alexis Tsipras met with the President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, actually handing over, even before … receiving, the second research mandate, SYRIZA’s eyes are turned to the first post-election meeting of the Central Committee of the party tomorrow, Wednesday.

As it became known, the Central Committee of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance will meet at the Athenaeum InterContinental Athens Hotel (Leoforos Syngrou 89-93), and the process will be opened by the speech of the President of SYRIZA-PS Alexis Tsipras at 17:00.

“Pain shock, I’m sorry – I stand and fight”

“I have no reason to hide the painful shock of the unexpected result of the elections,” Alexis Tsipras said today as he left the Presidential Palace, stressing that “I fear for society – even for those who voted for N.D. – that relationships are developing, which, if repeated in the next enhanced proportionality elections, they will create suffocating conditions for democracy.”

Setting the stakes for a new pre-election period, the President of SYRIZA emphasized: “Let’s see how we can prevent these associations from repeating.‘ while he asked I’m sorry “from the people we have hurt, from friends, fighters, activists and voters of SYRIZA.”

At the same time, Mr. Tsipras took over political responsibility about the defeat of SYRIZA in the elections, noting that “victories have many fathers, and defeats have one. In my own moral vocabulary, “taking responsibility” means “stand up and fight,” to set the goal of the elections expected to take place on June 25 “that SYRIZA and the left remain the bulk of the popular struggle and demands.”

“Some celebrated the fall of SYRIZA more than the New Democrats”

On Monday afternoon, a few hours after the polls closed, the meeting expanded executive apparatus of the party.

“In the next elections, we have a responsibility to prevent the prospect of an out-of-control ruling prime minister,” SYRIZA President Alexis Tsipras said in a message after the process was over.

“I learned in difficult times to take responsibility and not give up in the fight. I’m here. I won’t give up even now, even in the midst of a hard fight. Yesterday was election day. Today is the first day of another election battle. In yesterday’s elections, the ND won, but the strategy of simple proportionality was defeated. The progressive forces to which we extended our hand of cooperation throughout the entire pre-election period were a front almost exclusively against SYRIZA,” continued the President of SYRIZA.

“And yesterday, during the historic victory of the right in the elections, they, more than the New Democrats, celebrated the fall in the percentage of SYRIZA. We looked at the country. They own the field. In the next election, we have the primary responsibility to prevent an omnipotent and uncontrollable ruler from appearing as prime minister. But also to defend the leading presence of the left in the political life of the country as an irreconcilable force. What comes from afar and will go far. SYRIZA is and will remain here. As the main organ of progressive forces and the expression of popular and public interests. To protect the world of work. And to prevent the restoration of a convenient systemic two-party system,” Alexis Tsipras said.

Now in Kumunduru they are trying to overcome the defeat in the elections as quickly as possible and re-strategize the next meeting.