Tomorrow’s scheduled meeting of SYRIZA‘s Political Secretariat hangs in the balance, where Sokratis Famellos is set to announce the proposal he will submit to his party’s Central Committee on Saturday, June 6, regarding how they will proceed in the upcoming elections. The fact that tensions are running particularly high leads many to believe that the intensity should not escalate from now, as they will reach extremes in the Central Committee.
It is characteristic that Pavlos Polakis’ close friend, Giorgos Panagiotópoulos, in his post implied that some are preparing to turn the Central Committee into… “Kogi.” “My souls, all of you who will come to the Central Committee to sell us the idea of ‘TRANSITION,’ bring a raincoat,” he characteristically noted in his Facebook post, implying that those who support the view of SYRIZA not running in the elections in order to align with Alexis Tsipras will be disapproved. However, information suggests that no one actually knows what Sokratis Famellos will propose to the Central Committee, as he finds himself in a particularly difficult position.
There are four scenarios. The SYRIZA president could insist on the scenario of cooperation between the Koumoundourou party and Alexis Tsipras, despite knowing that the former prime minister does not discuss the scenario of cooperation with other parties. In this case, he will find all party officials against him. Both those who want to cooperate with Alexis Tsipras and those who know that the former prime minister’s door is closed to them. The reason is obvious. This proposal would provide no solution to the problem. Repeating the narrative of party cooperation would only show that Sokratis Famellos is trying to kick the can down the road, hoping that developments will overtake him.
The second scenario has him proposing SYRIZA’s independent participation in the elections, with possible cooperation with other political entities, such as New Left and PRATTO. However, even if this proposal passes through the Central Committee, the next day the overwhelming majority of party officials and SYRIZA supporters would withdraw, leaving Sokratis Famellos with a thin minority. The third scenario has him proposing that SYRIZA should not run in the elections and any official who wishes to align with Tsipras’ party should do so.
No one knows if there are the correlations to pass this scenario, but even if it has the majority, chaos is expected from the dissenters. Officials like Pavlos Polakis, Nikos Pappas, and Rena Dourou are expected to denounce the process and withdraw, thus signaling a new split in SYRIZA. Of course, there is also the fourth scenario, which speaks of Sokratis Famellos’ resignation, so that developments can emerge through an extraordinary party congress that will elect new leadership. In this case, Pavlos Polakis would also put forward his candidacy, as would Rena Dourou, who has appeared as the party’s guardian throughout this recent period. Of particular interest is the fact that while most know that Polakis’ candidacy could have gotten SYRIZA into Parliament, his comrades, with whom he is identified against Alexis Tsipras, do not want to support him, with the logic that his general behavior has a negative sign in society.
