The speech of Stefanos Kasselakis at the SYRIZA conference (video)
"We are the force that wants and can enact the great democratic change in Greece"
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The speech of the President of SYRIZA, Stefanos Kasselakis, at the 4th Congress of the party, is underway.
The leader of the main opposition party is expected to take up the challenge thrown by Alexis Tsipras, who, a few hours before the start of the conference , requested a new recourse to the party’s base.
“We are here to signal the progressive counterattack”, Mr. Kasselakis emphasized at the beginning of his speech, as he took the stage to applause.
“We are the force that wants and can enact the great democratic change in Greece,” continued the President of SYRIZA.
“The real enemy of the peoples of Europe is the deliberate direction of the anger of people, people who have nothing, towards the far right. The goal of those who do this is to leave the hard core of neoliberalism untouched, which seeks to disguise itself as a centrist force,” he also noted, adding: “This is what Mr. Mitsotakis is doing to Greece.
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