By Diamantis Seitanidis
And suddenly, the Leadership of SYRIZA is required to respond to the extremely negative comments that it gathered all day yesterday (Wednesday, 20/01/21) the initiative of 15 executives, as well as his youth to defend the lifer the mastermind of the terrorist organisation «17 November», Dimitris Koufontina. The article was the first all day yesterday with a lot of comments on twitter and the rage of users followed by ironic comments.
The 15 well-known members of SYRIZA with Article from which was inscribed «democracy does not take revenge» were taking the side of D. Koufontina, who has been on hunger strike for several days, demanding to be transferred to the prisons Korydallos and not in those of Domokou. Kufodina's request is based on a reference in the law which states that the prisoner must return to the prison where he was. The government claims that Koufontinas returned to the Korydallos prison and from there he was transferred to Domoko. All this, however, is a formality since no law specifies in which prison a prisoner will remain.
Η Koumundourou realised that in the present circumstances it could not afford to open another front, but also that the effort to broaden the political scope of SYRIZA through the «Progressive Alliance» towards social democracy becomes infinitely more difficult when such issues, which are perceived by a large part of public opinion as the defence of a terrorist, come into the news.
On that last one, contributed decisively, as expected, and the immediate announcement of the New Democracy, which invited the president of SYRIZA - Progressive Alliance, Alexis Tsipras, «Serial killer Dimitris Koufontinas and his supporters must understand that democracy is not being blackmailed. It is disturbing that members of the Official Opposition party rushed to his defence, while they never found a word to say about his victims. Really, what is the position of the Syriza leadership?; Does he agree with the text of his staff?; We are waiting for Mr Tsipras» statement," the statement of the Southwest said.
Both because New Democracy was clearly asking for it, and - mainly - because it had to close a front that was unnecessary from every point of view, the leadership of SYRIZA «picked up the glove» and distanced itself by the initiative of the party's executives, with an eye on the PASOK citizens who have approached or are thinking of approaching SYRIZA.
On the other hand, in order not to drop more water in the mill of introversion, contented himself with a succinct comment condemning terrorism, without going into the substance of the specific case: «Terrorism is absolutely reprehensible and has no place in democracy. In a modern European rule of law, the law applies to everyone,» SYRIZA noted.
