More turmoil in SYRIZA as three cadres quit party executive
Greece’s main opposition SYRIZA is in for more upheaval, after three cadres announced their intention to quit the party’s executive bodies, but not the party itself.
Announcing their resignation in a public statement on Wednesday, Dionysis Temponeras, Antonis Kostakas and Haris Tsiokas expressed their opposition with recent comments by party leader Stefanos Kasselakis who hinted in a social media post that SYRIZA had benefited from shady funding sources under his predecessor, former prime minister Alexis Tsipras.
“The [party] president’s last intervention made it abundantly clear that we can no longer be indifferent – for reasons of dignity and self-respect – to the mutation [of the party],” they said in their announcement.
The three party cadres are also opposed to the decision to suspend the daily edition of the SYRIZA-backed newspaper Avgi.
They clarified, however, that they would remain in the party, to serve the “reconstruction of the progressive and leftist camp on the basis of our values.”
