{"id":13329,"date":"2026-06-28T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13329"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:29:00","slug":"kasselakis-i-asked-theodora-tzakri-to-resign-were-shifting-toward-the-liberal-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13329","title":{"rendered":"Kasselakis: \u201cI asked Theodora Tzakri to resign\u2014We\u2019re shifting toward the liberal center\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     She thanked <b>Theodora Tzakri<\/b> for \u201cresponding to the request\u201d to resign, <b>Stefanos Kasselakis<\/b> in a post. <\/p>\n<p>     The president of the \u201cDemocrats\u201d commented on social media that \u201c<i>the Democrats are entering a new phase, defining their political space within the liberal center of practical politics<\/i>\u201d and that \u201c<i>there is no room in this journey for personal ambitions or anachronistic notions of political survival<\/i>.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that earlier, Ms. Tzachri announced via her personal social media account her departure from the \u201cDemocrats,\u201d making clear jabs at the party\u2019s president, Stefanos Kasselakis. In fact, she accused Mr. Kasselakis of \u201c<i>is legitimizing an obvious shift to the right, which compels me to resign immediately<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>     Mr. Kasselakis\u2019s post in full <\/h3>\n<p>     Today I requested Theodora Tzakri\u2019s resignation from her position as Vice President of the Democrats and the European Democratic Party. <\/p>\n<p>     I am grateful for Theodora\u2019s support since the SYRIZA primary process in 2023 and ever since. <\/p>\n<p>     The Democrats are entering a new phase, defining their political space in the liberal center of practical politics, with the values of solidarity, equality, and humanism at our core. Only this political proposal can bring about real progress. <\/p>\n<p>     There is no room on this path for personal ambitions or anachronistic notions of political survival. On this path, all members and leaders of the Democrats unite with altruism and idealism, but also with professionalism and realism. <\/p>\n<p>     We are Democrats for our ideas, not for power. We are not career politicians. We are active citizens with experience in the workforce, the marketplace, academia, and civil society\u2014and we are united to contribute to the radical renewal our country needs. <\/p>\n<p>     I thank Theodora for responding to my request. We Democrats are pressing on undeterred. The final reckoning will come at the end, and I have no doubt that the Greek people will embrace our message. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Stefanos Kasselakis commented in a post that he thanked Theodora Tzakri for \u201cresponding to the request\u201d to resign.<\/p>\n<p>    The president &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13329","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\/13329","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=13329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}