Nikos Pappas: “I will not be nominated for the presidency of SYRIZA – No question of erasure Kasselakis” – Live press conference 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. “There is no such talk at the moment, we have channelled all our powers into fulfilling the duties assigned to us and this is not just my face but everyone. So no such talk exists,” he added. In fact, Mr. Pappas made it clear that there is no obstacle to the participation of Stefanos Kasselakis in the SYRIZA internal party election, noting that there is no question of erasure of the former party president. “SYRIZA claims governance” Asked if Syriza remains a government party, he replied that “it is a party claiming governance, he claims to build alliances that will form the competitive pole against the New Democracy. The need to create such a pole becomes even more urgent in light of the rapid deterioration of the Mitsotakis government. Because we saw that after the European elections, we had our own developments, the deterioration of the N.D. was something I did not expect to have on that scale.” He added that in the light of this evolution our responsibilities and ours and all other progressive forces multiply. He said that “we have also described the initiatives that we will take at society level, at parliamentary level and at central political level and it is the highest responsibility of those forces who really mean that they want a progressive turn in the country.” On the occasion of the election in Chambers he commented that it would be desirable to set up progressive fronts that would vote. See live the Pappa interview at ITH “To dare bring PPC back under public control” “The PPC in the Mitsotakis government is pioneering in the race of rising energy prices, here there must be a front facing accuracy,” he said in a relevant question. He added that Syriza too early without trying to find America to restore the wheel formulated a number of proposals that had already been rushed since 2022 and based on the Commission communication then to adopt other countries. “And profits need to be taxed and valued at profit must be entered and dare to bring PPC back under public control in order to push prices downward and not just launch the gold boys’ pay,” he stressed. “Need for a major progressive change” “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.