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SYRIZA: 'Those who leave must return their seats' – Jabs at Tsipras
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SYRIZA: 'Those who leave must return their seats' – Jabs at Tsipras

From Ta Nea · () Greek

Translated from Greek, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • SYRIZA's Political Secretariat demands that lawmakers who leave the party return their seats.
  • The party questions if departing members, including former leader Alexis Tsipras, plan to run with a new coalition, suggesting their departures are part of a destabilization plan.
  • SYRIZA calls for those who left due to internal instability to return to the party.

SYRIZA's Political Secretariat has issued a strong call for lawmakers who have recently left the party to return their parliamentary seats. Sources within the secretariat stated that those elected under SYRIZA's banner but now choosing a different political path must relinquish their positions out of "political honesty and democratic consistency." The party emphasized that these seats are not personal property but a trust granted by voters to the party's collective effort.

Those who were elected with the vote of the citizens on the SYRIZA-PS ballots and today choose a different political path, owe it, for reasons of political honesty and democratic consistency, to return their parliamentary seats.

— SYRIZA Political Secretariat sourcesDemanding that departing lawmakers return their seats.

The secretariat directed a public question towards the "Greek Left Cooperation" and former leader Alexis Tsipras, asking if the recently independent lawmakers intend to be candidates on their coalition's lists in the next national elections. A positive response, the sources suggested, would confirm suspicions that these departures are not isolated incidents but part of a "premeditated plan for political destabilization and dissolution of SYRIZA."

Parliamentary seats are not the personal property of anyone.

— SYRIZA Political Secretariat sourcesExplaining that seats belong to the party and voters, not individuals.

Sources stressed that the leadership of the Greek Left Cooperation cannot avoid answering this critical political question, asserting that transparency with citizens is a fundamental obligation. The party concluded by extending an open invitation to all who left due to the "climate of internal destabilization and prolonged crisis" to return to their "political home."

Will the today-independent lawmakers be candidates on the lists of the Greek Left Cooperation in the next national elections?

— SYRIZA Political Secretariat sourcesDirecting a question to the Greek Left Cooperation and Alexis Tsipras.
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Originally published by Ta Nea in Greek. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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