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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-03-14
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[01] Alavanos addresses SYRIZA meeting
[01] Alavanos addresses SYRIZA meeting
Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) leader Alekos Alavanos addressed a
nationwide party conference at an indoor stadium on Friday night,
stressing that "we are in a phase of a rapid and great upsurge of the
Radical Left Coalition regarding the confidence of citizens and this is
positive."
However, Alavanos warned of the risk "of us becoming victims of our
success," adding that "society is posing challenges and dilemmas for us
that we had not expected or that we had expected much later."
He further said that SYRIZA can now speak of the aim of a radical
government focusing on the Left, and stressed that the citizens "have
deeply appreciated our opposition stance, although we can improve it
even further. Our substantive opposition to the policy of the Right.
Our unifying mood. Our party dimension. Our appeal to the young
generation. Our effectiveness."
Describing the strategic targets of SYRIZA, Alavanos said that "we can
speak of an alternative radical programme that will provide answers for
the immediate problems of the people - high pices, poverty,
unemployment, the redistribution of wealth, education and a social
state - and that will be open on the one hand for the course towards a
socialism with democracy and freedom and on the other for cooperation
with the European and international forces of social transformation."
Referring, lastly, to a policy of alliances, Alavanos stressed the need
for the unity of the Left and noted that "at the same time, general
cooperation at leadership level with the PASOK party is impossible.
Policy positions on the public University, the constitutional treaty of
the European Union, uninsured labour, privatisations and the stance
towards the United States place us on different sides."
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