The two-day voting process to elect approximately 3,500 delegates for SYRIZA’s Extraordinary Congress (November 8-10) concluded yesterday amid tensions and mutual accusations of fraud. The party’s Committee for Delegate Validation is expected to confirm the official delegate list.
Although final results have yet to be announced, both Stefanos Kasselakis’s faction and the ‘anti-Kasselakis’ faction—comprising the ’87,’ along with the ‘Pappas group’ and the ‘Polakis group’—released conflicting data, with each side claiming to have secured a majority of delegates.
Delegates are the only ones with the right to participate and vote at the Extraordinary Congress, where, among other issues, the nominations for the party leadership elections will be confirmed.
Sources from the ‘Group of 87’ report their final percentage at 65%, while the Kasselakis faction claims victory with 1,983 delegates. In a post on X, Stefanos Kasselakis said that the ‘sweeping victory […] embodies democracy,’ but also remarked, ‘their claimed victory is welcome,’ while noting instances of ‘illegal’ denial of voting rights to some individuals. Following the post, sources from the ‘Group of 87’ suggest Kasselakis is ‘laying the groundwork to dispute the Congress outcome.’
If Kasselakis secures the majority, he may seek to challenge the Central Committee’s decisions to remove him from office and bar him from running in the SYRIZA leadership election on November 24.
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