The dinner of Stefanos Kasselakis and Olga Gerovasilis last night, if it was not conciliatory, it was certainly a message to tone down the tones between the two sides that clashed at the official opposition conference – with less than a hundred days to go before the European elections, SYRIZA is possibly at the most critical turning point in its history. “The mass reaction of the people for Tempi forced the ‘kiss'” said Nikos Pappas in this regard, commenting on the meeting of the two near-rivals on the march to Tempi that had preceded a few hours earlier.
But this soft approach, combined with the reshuffle of the Central Committee expected for this weekend, should not give the wrong impression: the expected changes in key persons will take place, the Political Secretariat and Executive Office elections are still on the cards , alongside a process of de-encryption of the party apparatus that will facilitate the plans of the current leadership.
In this context, the sudden removal of the general director of SYRIZA, Thymios Georgopoulos, who was also responsible for the party’s finances, is also included.
He was informed about “extensive changes” that Stefanos Kasselakis has in mind, while there was a request from the leadership for an immediate departure, without even closing the outstanding issues concerning the daily life of the party. Georgopoulos, a confidant of former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, succeeded Mimi Dariotis, whose name adorned the Koumoundourou building three years ago, and was elected to the position following a decision by the Political Secretariat and the Central Committee – his removal it is considered a harbinger of changes within the SYRIZA building, at an administrative level, but also in the party media, whose financial problems have been known for a long time.
