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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 13-07-10
CONTENTS
[01] SYN's self-dissolution marks a new beginning, SYRIZA leader Tsipras
declares at party congress
[02] KKE secretary general pays first visit as party leader to President
Papoulias
[01] SYN's self-dissolution marks a new beginning, SYRIZA leader Tsipras
declares at party congress
ANA-MPA -- Wrapping up his address before the last Synaspismos (SYN)
congress, main opposition Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) leader
Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday noted that "in the morning we close the
Synaspismos chapter and in the afternoon we will turn a new page,"
considering that a vote will take place in a few hours to decide the
party's self-dissolution and incorporation into SYRIZA-EKM.
Tsipras' speech was emotionally charged while referring to SYN's
establishment, an initiative by Harilaos Florakis and Leonidas Kirkos,
both leading figures of the Left. A special reference was made to former
SYN leader Nikos Konstantopoulos considering that the process for the
establishment of SYRIZA had started during his term in office and to
the contribution of the late Mihalis Papagiannakis, a leading SYN cadre.
Tsipras underlined that the SYN congress marks a new beginning, noting
that SYRIZA "can rule the country, salvage society from the memorandum
storm, defend the workers and restore democracy and popular sovereignty".
He noted that "SYN played a leading role in the creation of SYRIZA, the
most successful experiment of leftist unity across Europe," adding his
party has "the social momentum sought after for years to put in motion
the major overthrow of the corrupt political system".
[02] KKE secretary general pays first visit as party leader to President
Papoulias
ANA-MPA -- Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Secretary General Dimitris
Koutsoumbas expressed the party's disagreement with the government's
measures and its deep concern over the warring state in the general
geographic area, during a meeting with President of the Republic Karolos
Papoulias on Wednesday.
Koutsoumbas said the party requested the particular meeting, his first
as party leader, "to brief the president on KKE's positions around major
problems faced by the Greek people and Greece, and we also informed him
of the decisions of the party's 19th congress related to the future and
the exit from the crisis."
Papoulias expressed interest in the existence of a communist party in
Turkey and described his recent visit to Auschwitz, while on an official
visit to Poland, saying he was impressed by the number of young people
paying tribute at the site to victims of the Nazis. He said that nobody
from his village survived the Nazi occupation of Greece, while one of
the officers responsible for the transfer of people to Auschwitz was
Kurt Waldheim, later UN secretary general.
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