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In an attempt to undermine the credibility of the party and its role in the next presidential elections, EPP President Marinos Sizopoulos attributed the demand of the "initiative group for a democratic congress of the EPP".
Asked on the sidelines of a meeting with DISY President and presidential candidate Averof Neophytou about the demand at yesterday's meeting, Sizopoulos said that a democratic congress of the party was held, and with democratic procedures.
He also questioned how it is possible that some people who participated either as candidates, or by voting, or by being actively involved, afterwards, and after the results of the provincial conferences, declare that they want a new congress. At the same time, he questioned how it is possible and on the basis of which register they want this new democratic congress to take place, when the register which is in their possession - as they claim - has already been confirmed by a court decision that it has been subjected to repeated and multiple interferences.
"So all these are excuses, they are pretexts in sin and much more they are aimed at undermining the credibility of the party in substance and weakening any role the party could play in the next presidential election," he said."
He added that they are talking about the 2017 constitution, which has already been violated and altered by a court decision. At the same time, he said, the party's constitution says that all members who are registered in the party's membership register six months before the congress have the right to elect and be elected.
"So how is it possible to hold elections in 2021 or 2022 but with the 2017 membership register?"
He also said that after November 2017, either new members were added or removed because they disagreed.
So all this is untenable, since they don't have any serious evidence to offer to justify the factionalism and the subversive policy they are following, he said.
"We don't deal with factionalists."
"We don't deal with factionalists. What will be done is the decisions of the party's collective groups," he said.Asked whether his predecessor Giannakis Omirou did similar things with the constitution, the register and the membership when he was in his position, Sizopoulos said "ask Mr. Omirou to answer."
Source: CNA
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