The political-intra-party “adventure”, which began about a month ago, seems to have ended for SYRIZA-PS tonight. The reason for his case Pavlos Polakiswho, after the unanimous decision of the Political Secretariat of the party, will finally become a candidate in the upcoming national elections.

At her meeting, P.G. SYRIZA has unanimously decided to keep Mr. Polakis on the electoral rolls following a public self-criticism made by a Chania MP in a letter he sent.

According to the official opposition party, “The body has taken note of the letter sent by Pavlos Polakis, in which he explains his recent posts, acknowledges his mistakes and failures, and reaffirms his absolute respect for the collective decisions of SYRIZA-PS.”

It was previously mentioned Alexis Tsipras during his speech before the party organ. The President of SYRIZA, referring to a letter from Pavlos Polakis, characteristically said that this is an event that “it makes us also reevaluate our original intentions, because it is indeed a letter of bold self-criticism.”

The reaction of Pavlos Polakis was not long in coming, who shortly after the announcement of PG posted a picture of himself along with Alexis Tsipras on his personal Facebook account, writing: “Together to a great victory. More united and more determined than ever. For the country to breathe. For justice everywhere” and accompanied it with two postscripts: “PS1: Don’t do them any favors, PS2: Crete always leads the way.”

The first “vote” for the candidacy of Hyertaki

On February 19, the day SYRIZA announced 75% of its ballots, Pavlos Polakis posted an angry post about the fact that Michalis Hayretakis was not included in the announced names.

“Obviously, due to a “mistake”, Michalis Hayretakis was not included in the list of candidates for SYRIZA-PS in Chania, despite yesterday’s recommendation of the political secretariat. Until the “mistake” is corrected, even my candidacy is invalid,” wrote the deputy of Chania.

Sources in Komundura then commented that the decisions on the SYRIZA-PS bulletins are collective, and the final decision on their preparation remains with the party bodies. They also noted that participation in voting is voluntary for all leaders, deputies and candidates for deputies, without conditions, and that anyone who does not agree with the collective decisions on the composition of the ballots has every right not to participate in them.

The reaction of SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras will intensify next week after the new post of Mr. Polakis, which caused a political chain reaction.

Mailing-announcement and appeal to party bodies

In particular, the deputy from SYRIZA published a post addressed to judges, journalists, bankers and heads of independent authorities, asking for “admission” so that, as he wrote, “next time everything will be different.”

In his online announcement, Pavlos Polakis called for one of the four systemic banks to be placed under public scrutiny, demanded the dismissal of Giorgos Pitsilis from AADE, blamed the media, and promised to restore the provisions of Pappa’s law.

On February 28, after a lengthy joint meeting with the participation of the President of SYRIZA-PS Alexis Tsipras, the Executive Office and the Political Planning Committee of SYRIZA unanimously decided “to recommend to the Political Secretariat that Comrade Pavlos Polakis not participate in the ballots of the party in connection with the upcoming decisive confrontation.” Then Mr. Polakis was also sent to the party ethics committee.

After the severe mourning tragedy in Tempi, all scheduled meetings of SYRIZA were postponed, so the Polakis issue was “frozen”.

The letter of apology that changed the climate

The case came back after yesterday’s letter sent by Pavlos Polakis to the leadership of SYRIZA the day before the meeting of the General Assembly. parties.

In his letter, the SYRIZA MP noted regarding his controversial post that “this was in no way a response to a previous interview with SYRIZA-PS President Alexis Tsipras”.

“With my post, I expressed, perhaps with excessive intensity, the opinions that I have expressed publicly for a long time and most of which are programmatic positions of SYRIZA-PS,” he said in his letter, among other things.

Today, a few hours before Polakis’s “rehabilitation” was announced on the ballots, Michalis Hairetakis announced in writing that he was withdrawing his candidacy from the SYRIZA-PS ballots. The SYRIZA politician stated that “there is no need for micropolitics, selfishness, positions, chairs and mechanisms in this fight.”

Somewhat later, come to the “recognition” of Pavlos Polakis’ self-criticism by Alexis Tsipras and to the unanimous decision of the Political Secretariat, which emphasized that “the body has taken into account the letter communicated by Pavlos Polakis, in which he explains his recent posts, acknowledges the errors and failures and confirms its absolute respect for the collective decisions of SYRIZA-PS”.

Attack of ND and PASOK

The reaction of New Democracy and PASOK followed immediately after the unanimous decision of the Political Secretariat of SYRIZA was made public.

“With the absurdities that happened to Mr. Polakis, it has been proven once again that ‘polarization’ is identified with SYRIZA and Mr. Tsipras,” the ruling party commented, while PASOK derisively remarked that “the supposedly moderate turn SYRIZA, which is now ingloriously ending, began under unfavorable calendar conditions, as it coincided with Halloween Sunday.”

Today’s carousel of announcements has been supplemented by SYRIZA with a new ND response announcement stating that “at a time when the Tempe tragedy calls for low tones, empathy and a search for the truth, the ND chooses to attack SYRIZA-PS due to its internal processes” .