Nikos Pappas: “I will not be a candidate for the presidency of SYRIZA – No Kasselakis participate in the election” – Live Press Interview at ITH

He will not be a candidate for the Presidency of SYRIZA , as he made clear by her step , where he is currently delivering a press conference, with the explosive climate in the party of Koumoundourou on the background. “There is no debate to be a candidate president of SYRIZA,” said Nikos Pappas, who represents SYRIZA at ITH after the “discount” of Stefanos Kasselakis from the “timoni” of the party. “We are addressing the citizens of Greece and saying clearly that the country needs a major progressive change,” he said afterwards and added: “To prevent millions of acres of forests burning every year and fires stopping either at sea or in residential tissue. So that images of hundreds of thousands of tons of dead fish don’t dominate television screens as we saw a few days ago on the Pagasitikos. To prevent critical infrastructure being abandoned in their fate and to prevent the country from living tragedies such as Temph crime. In order not to violate fundamental rules of the rule of law, so that ministers, leaders of armed forces, businessmen, political leaders and administration officials are not illegally monitored. For ELSTAT not to announce for the next few years that births in our country are tens of thousands less than deaths. So the hospitals and heroic staff who work there don’t collapse. In order not to be the last country in the purchasing power of workers in Europe, so that we are not champions of the cost of energy, so that half of this country’s inhabitants do not need half its income just to be housed. In order not to exclude 95% of Greek companies from the NSRF and bank lending…”. All the above, Mr Pappas argued, are the results of Mr Mitsotakis’ choices and policies. “But it is not the inevitable fate of the Greek people,” he said. See Live: