“Everyone can fit in: Leftists, Radicals, Leftist Socialists, Democrat Communists, Social Democrats, green ecologists and citizens coming from the democratic center,” Alexis Tsipras said on Saturday when he called for creation of a large progressive party.
Addressing members of SYRIZA Central Committee he dismissed claims that the party has turned into a new PASOK.
“Nobody wants to be PASOK, not even PASOK that it changed its name” to KINAL, he stressed.
Saying that the reality does not leave a range of time, he stressed “we have to keep intact the duty that the Greek people have given us. With only criterion the interest of the country and the good of the society, of those who voted us and those who did not.”
Stressing that despite the victory of the New Democracy, he said that “we remain the great power of democracy and progress in our country.”
Referring to elections last Sunday, he said that “the democratic and progressive Greece invested in SYRIZA as 1.8 million citizens consciously gave us their trust in us knowing our capabilities, mistakes and omissions.”
“Their trust could be seen as a contract for the country’s tomorrow with us, a contract to represent their dreams, needs and interests,” he said among others.
The Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) is not a one-man party but a coalition of left-wing and radical left parties. And therefore the party organs will decided on its expansion.
Tsipras’ call is also a clear invitation to his former comrades who left him in summer 2015 when he signed the third bailout and formed small parties that have not managed to enter the Parliament not only in September 2015 elections but also last Sunday.
Will they follow the invitation, although majority of them favor Greece’s exit form the eurozone?
Time -and comrades’ needs – will show.
