Babylonian polyphony prevails in SYRIZA, focusing on the crushing defeat, the search for guilt and the changes that will have to be made to the party. OUR Alexis Tsipras spoke yesterday in the Central Committee, in which it was decided not to appoint his officials, and asked everyone to be involved in the election campaign in the repeat elections, while he himself tried to end his isolation, saying that the final assessment of what he had done wrong would be made after the second vote.

Silence after cacophony

Antonis Anzoletou

Central Committee SYRIZA took place in a unifying and festive atmosphere, with Alexis Tsipras give the signal for a regrouping of the party. What worried several executives? Consolidated procedures by which the body has completed its work. The Executive Office recommended to refrain from speaking, and the EC Secretary, Rania Svigu, offered to send members’ proposals in writing. OUR Nikos Vutsis requested that the placement be done as usual. According to “K”, when the doors were closed to journalists, the former Speaker of Parliament emphasized that there should be a discussion not about the reasons for the defeat, but about the path of victory that the party should take and to enrich the president’s proposal. “He wants collectivism. “Battles are not fought in silence,” he said characteristically. The proposal of Mr. Vutsis was rejected by an overwhelming majority.

The word, according to the same sources, was also taken Olga Gerovasili who explained that a large number of members of the body does not allow for detailed positions, and therefore will be offended. “All discussions will be detailed after the elections,” he added. Left wing leaders who spoke with “K” reported that they were informed of the Executive Office’s proposal five minutes before the start of the proceedings. Considering that a detailed discussion will take place in Political Secretariat in the subsequent period, the fact is that the group of leaders did not want to change the unifying image that Alexis Tsipras created in his speech.

Will this initiative help? If the flurry of statements recorded in recent days, which in many cases concern Alexis Tsipras himself, does not stop, it will not be easy. Perhaps, according to many, “relief” and the first dose of self-criticism during yesterday’s meeting would have helped. At the same time, of course, any “fiery” position would potentially blow up the climate. Yesterday’s statements by leaders showed that SYRIZA is still suffering the crushing defeat it suffered last Sunday. OUR George Varemenos speaking at The Open Championship, he spoke of many “spectacular own goals” when asked about his statements. George Katrugalu for freelancers.

Flurry of placements on radio and television continued yesterday.

“First Reason”

Dimitris Vitsas at SKAI returned to the issue of the president, stressing that “he took the party and raised it, made it into a government.” He is also clearly responsible for the poor election result, he noted, adding that “I think he also has a reason for the next course, whether he wants to stay, whether he wants to leave in the first place.” She wanted to end this discussion Efi Ahtsioglu, whose name was included in the list due to the statement of Dimitris Papadimoulis. In Kokkino, he said: “SYRIZA has a leader, Alexis Tsipras. Any discussion that attempts to dispute this is invalid and taken out of context.” “We all need to be more serious about how we position ourselves. We have a very big battle ahead of us, the battle for the left and for the progressive faction,” he said. Alexis Haritsis.

The most discussed statement was his Evangelos Antonaros, who, speaking in Attica, mentioned that he sees a difference with the New Democracy, but believes that he should “encourage and give hope.” The internal debate continued and Kostas Barcas replied to Mr. Antonaros that no one understood what was going on. Even the case of “little Maria” from Evros was highlighted by Giorgos Tsipras, who told SKAI that “in terms of communications management, it hurt us, we weren’t really wrong.”

Tsipras’ attempt to slow down introversion

Dora Antoniou

Alexis Tsipras seeks to end introversion and stop the polyphony and public confrontation between leaders over the reasons for last Sunday’s electoral defeat, as was clear from his speech to the SYRIZA Central Committee yesterday. Mr. Tsipras urged the leadership of the party to come together as a united front in the fight to refute the ratios in the second round of voting and win. “I take responsibility to lead the battle, I didn’t get scared, I didn’t give up because of the difficulties,” he said.

At a difficult time for the party, the President of SYRIZA sought to close any differences that had begun to arise and could develop into a destructive struggle in the run-up to the elections. According to him, the defeat was a painful shock for him, and he spoke about his responsibility, first of all, for the result of the elections. But he urged the party leadership to announce an end to the mourning and immediately regroup, because “we have no right to resign and withdraw.” And sent a clear signal to the inner-party audience that “some people don’t avoid confrontation, they don’t get it.”

What did he do?

Mr. Tsipras said that the discussion of the reasons for the defeat and responsibility will be discussed in detail after the second election. However, he proceeded to first write down the main reasons for the defeat, of which he stated there were three:

1. The ND managed to impose its agenda by taking advantage of SYRIZA’s mistakes. “In the last days before the elections in coffee houses, they discussed not what happened over the past four years, but about 2015 and about the euro,” he stressed.

He named three reasons for the defeat in the elections, took his share of the blame and set a goal for SYRIZA to remain “the main voice of the democratic faction.”

2. To defend simple proportionality was a mistake and a strategic defeat. “It was easier to understand the proposal of opponents who demanded self-reliance for stability.”

3. The image of SYRIZA before the elections. “He did not show coherence and responsibility, there were inappropriate positions that cost us dearly,” he said.

The President of SYRIZA set as top priorities the reorganization of the Central Electoral Commission and the planning of a new election campaign.

And his main goal was to make it clear that the right-wingers and their politics are the front of the party, because, in his words, “we will not enter into small-party civil wars with PASOK and the KKE.”

As the debate begins on the impact of the election results on the center-left space, Mr. Tsipras called SYRIZA “the main voice of the democratic faction” and added that bipartisanship will not return because “we have come from afar and we are going far,” he added.