{"id":11358,"date":"2026-06-17T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11358"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:54:00","slug":"and-socrates-famellos-says-there-should-be-no-opposing-slate-in-the-hellenic-police-force-el-a-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11358","title":{"rendered":"And Socrates Famellos… says: There should be no opposing slate in the Hellenic Police Force (EL.A.S.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe do not want, and there should not be, a rival slate in EL.A.S. of Alexis Tsipras in the elections<\/b>,\u201d said the president of SYRIZA<\/b>, Socrates Famellos<\/b>.<\/p>\n

He then explained, beginning with the decision of SYRIZA\u2019s Central Committee: \u201cFollowing the announcement of the founding of EL.A.S., we decided in the Central Committee that the new party is a positive initiative; we support it, we stand by it, and we do not view it as an adversary<\/b>. With this tectonic shift brought about by EL.A.S., we are working to achieve a broad convergence within the progressive movement to bring down the Mitsotakis regime. The majority of the Central Committee has decided, and the SYRIZA grassroots agree with this position. Either we respect it or we don\u2019t.<\/b>\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Regarding his relationship with Alexis Tsipras<\/b>, he replied: \u201cMy relationship with Alexis Tsipras, both politically and personally, is very good to excellent<\/b>. However, whatever we have to say about political issues must be said publicly. Alexis Tsipras has heard the Central Committee\u2019s decision, and I am following his statements<\/b>. I reject any suggestion of secret discussions or coordination with Alexis Tsipras\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe do not want\u2014and there must not be\u2014a rival slate within Alexis Tsipras\u2019s ELAS in the elections,\u201d said SYRIZA President Socrates …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}