Greek MP Pavlos Polakis has publicly called on SYRIZA members who plan to leave the party for Alexis Tsipras’s new formation, ELAS (Greek Left Coalition), to stay away from Saturday’s Central Committee vote.
He argued that anyone who has already decided to join another party no longer has the political or moral standing to weigh in on SYRIZA’s future.
Polakis said it’s acceptable for someone to want to leave the party for any reason, even self-interest, but called it “deeply immoral” to belong to another party while still taking part in such a critical internal vote. He closed his post with an appeal to those still loyal: leave the decision about the party’s fate to those who “still feel the pain of the place.”
The dispute comes as SYRIZA’s leadership races to settle a contested “clean list” of Central Committee members before Saturday’s session, with internal tensions shifting rather than easing.
