Party secretariat votes overwhelmingly to remove political outsider who succeeded Alexis Tsipras last year
A Greek American shipping investor and former banker who emerged seemingly out of nowhere to assume the reins of Greece’s main leftwing opposition party Syriza has been deposed after a late night meeting of the party’s secretariat.
After two days of acrimonious talks, Syriza’s central committee had declared on Sunday that Kasselakis had been ousted in a motion of no confidence. From his luxury villa on the island of Spetses, the businessman contested the decision, writing on X “I’m still here” and urging his supporters to avoid public displays of anger and exhibit self-restraint. The challenge to his ousting forced the political secretariat to convene an emergency session that wrapped up on Thursday night.
“He ran Syriza as if it were a company, conducting meetings via Zoom, disregarding the decision-making organs that are so much of every party’s ‘internal’ life, showing little respect for colleagues, thinking he could govern by simply firing people left and right. In the end everyone was against him.”
Kasselakis, who moved to the US as a teenager after being awarded a scholarship, had deftly used social media to reach a wider audience in the run-up to elections last year. Leading figures in the party had come to his aid but by this week even they had retreated.
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