This day marks the closing of a cycle of introversion, SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Stefanos Kasselakis said on Thursday to the party's Political Secretariat, in the wake of resignations by deputies and officers of the Central Committee within a few days.

"Today a cycle of introversion ends; united, we will focus on producting political solutions for society," said Kasselakis, whose election to the main opposition party leadership as an outsider in September led to internal strife.

"It is obviously not a happy day for me," he added. "Introversion came from the refusal of accepting the (electoral) selection of myself as president of Syriza-PA" by the base of party members, Kasselakis said, adding that the focus of the party as of today will be in "setting up a bulwark against the Mitsotakis government's antipopular and antisocial plans." The party will present proposals and solutions for society's big problems, and needs to think of new models and plan policies. Those will address the issues of cost of living, unemployment, housing, the dissolution of a welfare state, the attack on labor rights, and the undermining of the rule of law.

Kasselakis also announced that the Political Secretariat will meet every fortnight, and called its members "the political center" of the party. He also called on them to work with an open mind and respect of each other, and likened their role as an orchestra. "I do not consider myself a concertmaster (first violin), we are an orchestra. What we must do is to subjugate the 'I' to the 'We'," he said.

Resignations

Fifty-seven members of main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance's Central Committee, including many former ministers and MPs, announced their departure from the party in a public message earlier on Thursday. They included the '6+6' faction led by Efi Achtsioglou.

Following the resignation of the 57, Eurodeputy MP Dimitris Papadimoulis also tendered his resignation from the party.

On Wednesday, 90 members on the party's Minority Rights section resigned from the party, while 'Umbrella' faction's Euclid Tsakalotos resigned as deputy, as did Deputy Peti Perka. 
Syriza, which had 45 MPs in Parliament, now has 36.