In tense intra -party atmosphere today meets today Of the Central Committee Rearas a group of executives under the party secretary, Gabriel Sakellaridis does not seem to consent to the possibility of working with SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance and other progressive forces in the logic of setting up a “popular front”, a position in which the party’s president insists Alexis Haritsis.
Mr Haritsis reportedly spoke in his presentation of a “roadmap” to a “popular front”, which includes:
- Co -organize the next period of public events, discussions and workshops, inviting other cutting -edge parties.
- Invitation to the forces of the People’s Front – and to social organizations – to create joint program processing groups.
- Coordinated coordination of parliamentary groups for joint action in Parliament.
- Coordination of action in social sites and social mobilizations.
- Together with other political and social forces, initiative for peace.
That is, setting a programming framework as the basis of the starting of the programmatic dialogue between the progressive forces.
“I cannot advance the course and evolution of the venture. We are here to evaluate the course, to discuss, to reshape the tactics, “Mr. Haritsis said, saying that” through dialogue and common mobilization, the dynamics it will develop, it will be evaluated whether it can lead to what a popular frontal is: A unity in the difference, “as Mr. Haritsis emphasized.
“In concerns about who will respond to our call, I will answer very honestly. Our invitation will apply to all the political forces I mentioned above, with which we could find a common footing on a programming basis. They should with those who respond to a principle. Take a first decisive step that will mark the start of a pole. Because I firmly believe that we have to start from somewhere, ”the president of the new left described.
“And I also believe that a first step can also act as a pressure lever. To create mobility in party formations and society. And to follow others, “Mr Haritsis continued, adding that” let’s be honest, comrades and comrades, and let’s look at the big picture. The lack of real culture of political partnerships – culture that the Left, of course, proclaims – has today formulated an unprecedented condition: society to seek unifying moves and the progressive opposition to remain embarrassed and unable to respond. And let us admit that as long as there is no alternative proposal, unifying, strong against the Mitsotakis regime and the fragmentation of the forces of the Progressive Opposition, which will hope for society, the challenge made by the Tempi movement will continue to be directed.
“In this we have to not only take a stand but also to act, to act. The formation of a polematic convergence on a radical and realistic basis aimed at an alternative proposal will also include strong political controversy and united processes between existing political forces. This is how it is born – if it can be born – something new. Comrades and comrades, since our first Pan -Hellenic Conference, last year January, I had said that we want to be clear because this requires the criticality of the moments and the seriousness of the new left. That we are interested in how this country will be ruled. Not generally and indefinitely. Not even in terms of sterile government, “the President of the New Left observed.
“But how will it be ruled by modern radical and progressive policies. Because this is the anxiety of the citizens and the people of those who are our own world: the world of work, production, research, creativity, wealth production. We had agreed that the proposal of the new Left is that political content counts and that this content always starts from the territory of the left, on which all the political forces of the wider political space will be called upon, not with backstage terms but with social and social agreements. We had set the aim of the New Left to star in this effort. And at our founding conference I talked about the need to form a popular front. In terms of defense of the interests of the social strata we want to represent and with specific program proposals. The 6 programmatic spikes we presented to the TIF, “as Mr Haritsis said.
“To the question of whether there are conditions for a popular front, I had answered ‘obviously and no, they don’t exist’. But I had added emphatically that we had to fight to create. Programming and on the basis of pressing social needs. I had said that I believe that the new Left should star in initiatives to set up a dialogue and programmatic processing space that responds to the social demand of the conflict with the right -wing policies, “he concluded.
Sakellaridis: We are not concerned with this phase the commitment to SYRIZA’s plan
For his part, New Left Secretary Gabriel Sakellaridis reportedly said that “SYRIZA is now the only political force that stands positively in a” popular front “perspective through its public positions. But the People’s Front with the aim of setting up a competitive force towards the Mitsotakis government, cannot be understood as the cooperation of the new left exclusively with SYRIZA. A popular front requires serious processes. The goal is primarily to organize the popular resistance to the existing. It may be an alternative government solution but also in this case it must be effective, provide solutions, otherwise the rise of the far -right is not cut off. Quick movements and exclusive partnerships do not ensure the first or second requirement. ”
“SYRIZA remains a party with low penetration into the electorate, cut off from society and a political discourse that stumbles between a left -wing rhetoric and a average political line, trying to satisfy all potential electoral audiences. The party’s positions on the country’s equipment programs, his fault in the need to tax the rich and the need to recover from the public strategic sectors of the economy, certify his rapid evolution after the September 2023 intra -party elections. The party’s public positioning is still pending for the reasons he considers that he was strategically defeated in the 2023 elections. His interpretation and responsibility for the Kasselakis period is still pending, a period that has contributed decisively to the depreciation of the left as a whole. These are not symptoms. They are structural characteristics of a policy perception that in the name of the stability of the party narrows its social utility as a party of the left, “as Mr Sakellarides observed.