Her first public statement since his electoral defeat SYRIZA-PSparty spokeswoman said. Popi Tzapanidu which explained that “I did not submit any resignation to the President“but then”immediately after the result and at the first meeting to see what we are doing, I made myself available to the President“.

Ms Tsapanidou acknowledged that there was “mourning” in SYRIZA, talked about the “shocking and painful result” and explained that yesterday’s Central Committee meeting was “short” because “we have elections ahead of us.”

Regarding the reports of her “disappearing” from Sunday until today, Popi Tsapanidou said with humor: “I saw a lot of amber warnings, but also silver ones, guys? I felt a little weird about the silver warning. It was a difficult result for us, it was not easy. It shocked us, we didn’t expect it. Until we see our strength and where we are going to be the Central Committee, I stayed in my office and worked on it.”

In an attempt to criticize herself and explain the election results, Ms. Tzapanidou he said that “we failed to convince ourselves of our program, we did not refer to it clearly, we allowed ourselves to get lost in the noise we were responsible for creating.” In fact, he added that “simple proportionality was our strategic mistake, although we believe in simple proportionality.”

“The ND put stability first, we put change that didn’t seem to convince,” Ms. Tsapanidou also commented.