He sent a letter of apology to his management SYRIZA and personally to the president of the main opposition party, Alexis Tsipras Pavlos Polakis, on the eve of tomorrow’s meeting of the political secretariat of the party.

Recall that on February 28, after a long joint meeting, the Executive Office and the Political Planning Committee of the party unanimously decided “to recommend to the Political Secretariat that Comrade Pavlos Polakis not participate in the party’s voting in view of the next decisive contest.”

Mr. Polakis was also assigned to the party ethics committee.

In his letter, the SYRIZA MP, referring to his recent post, notes that “this was in no way a response to the previous interview of the President of SYRIZA-PS, Alexis Tsipras.”

Letter from Polakis to the Political Secretariat and the Ethics Committee

“Dear comrades

In view of the forthcoming meeting of the Directorate General, as well as the Ethics Committee, where I was referred in connection with my communications on the Internet, I want to make it clear to you that it was not my intention with them to publicly question the exclusive competence of our collective bodies to make decisions or more importantly, our collective processes themselves.

As for my post about the composition of the ballots, although it was a response to my legitimate surprise at the statement of the press service, nevertheless, I admit that it was an oversight, since there are biased issues that should not be discussed in the public sphere, but decide in party bodies.

Regarding the post in question, which led to my appeal to the ethics committee, I declare that it was in no way a response to a previous interview with the president of SYRIZA-PS, Alexis Tsipras, which, after all, before the question arose, I had not even read.

With my post, I expressed, perhaps with excessive intensity, opinions that I have publicly expressed for a long time and most of which are programmatic positions of SYRIZA-PS.

And I clearly had no intention (as the eager feathers of the mainstream media hastened to suggest) to challenge Alexis Tsipras, whom I have supported with all my might since 2012 and continue to support in the battle for the victory of SYRIZA PS and political change that place is needed.

I would like everyone to understand that my sole purpose was to condemn all those who demanded that Nikos Pappas not be nominated after he, contrary to public opinion, was convicted of “breach of duty” by the Special Court.

I understand that the use of photography with the faces of famous journalists has been very misunderstood.

My intention, however, was not to target specific journalist individuals, but to highlight information manipulated by the Mitsotakis regime, which has placed our country in 108th place in the world, worse than autocratic democracies or totalitarian modes.

The foregoing could lead to misunderstandings on both sides and a difficult climate in our friendly relations, and for this I take the responsibility that belongs to me.

I am sure that every comrade in the common struggle will admit that any negligence stems from nothing else than my desire to rid the country as quickly as possible of a government that every day throws us back decades, ruining its citizens for the sake of little friends and who, in order to carry out the largest redistribution of wealth in the history of our country, does not hesitate to “eavesdrop”, endangering the Republic itself.

An agony that is now becoming a cry after what the Tempe tragedy has highlighted regarding the responsibility of the “regular” state and the attempt to hide responsibility for the unjust loss of 57 of our brothers.

With friendly greetings

Pavlos Polakis.