A resolution supporting cooperation with the Hellenic Left Alliance (HLA), founded by Alexis Tsipras, was approved by SYRIZA’s Central Committee after being introduced by party president Sokratis Famellos.
At the same time, Tsipras’s camp has not made any official move toward SYRIZA regarding political cooperation, while Tsipras has stated that his new party will welcome individuals rather than organizations.
“The declaration and establishment of the Hellenic Left Alliance constitute a major political event. It is a positive political development, one that SYRIZA-PS does not view in an adversarial way,” Famellos said. He added that “it is an initiative that mobilizes progressive citizens and contributes positively to the recomposition of the progressive space. In the effort to remove this corrupt and dangerous government and achieve a progressive administration, no one is expendable. Confrontation with the Hellenic Left Alliance would be a strategic mistake. We stand alongside this initiative, support it, and view it not as a competitor but as a partner.”
The Hellenic Left Alliance is polling in second place in recent surveys, while the launch of the new party was followed both by Famellos’s resolution and by a split within New Left.
However, Rena Dourou, Pavlos Polakis, and Nikos Pappas have rejected, through a joint statement, what they describe as the “dissolution” of SYRIZA that would result from cooperation with Tsipras.
“The scenarios of self-dissolution, dissolution, or suspension of our party’s operation are categorically rejected as ahistorical and offensive,” the statement said. “SYRIZA–PS will be present in the next political chapter, participating in electoral contests as an organized political party and not through individual agreements or the ‘loaning out’ of party figures.”
Πηγές: Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών [1], [2], Καθημερινή
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