SYRIZA: The Central Committee’s “so far” to Kasselakis – The background, the protagonists and the next day [Video]

Yesterday, the Central Committee of SYRIZA Progressive Alliance delivered a second blow to former party leader Stefanos Kasselakis. Following his impeachment, the committee voted by roll call—140 in favor and 12 against—to officially exclude him from the race for the party’s new leadership.

In a warlike atmosphere, with tensions, nervousness and counter-arguments, and in a process that lasted more than nine hours, the senior governing body of SYRIZA PS put the brakes on the deposed party President for the second time, depriving him of the opportunity to declare himself a candidate on the evening of October 24, when the deadline for filing nominations for the internal party elections expires.

See protothema.gr’s hour-long live update here on everything that happened at SYRIZA’s epochal CC

Yesterday’s result, however, did not come about in a vacuum, but as the conclusion of a “war”week between the Kasselakis side and the new majority of Koumoundourou, culminating in …