Milios resigns SYRIZA Economic Policy Department
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
Yannis Milios notified his resignation from the Economic Policy Department of SYRIZA with a post on Twitter in which he wrote: "Department of Economic Policy, farewell. With gratitude for the appreciation, companionship, trust."
Yannis Milios was already very annoyed because he considered that the party leadership did not help him out in last year's MEP elections.
Also, according to persons close to him, he had gotten assurances from Alexis Tsipras, that he would be placed Commissioner of the European Commission. Something, however, that Mr. Tsipras for reasons of a broader political balance preferred to turn into a center-right choice.
The third bitterness Milios endured was that he was nominated for the leading organ of the party, the Political Secretariat, for which the president of SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras proposed new cadres.
However, apart from his personal bitterness, the initiator of the economic program of SYRIZA, Milios saw other strategies were being followed. On the one hand, the support towards Yanis Varoufakis, but he was also annoyed by the "coverage" that exists from the leadership of the party to Mr. Lapavitsas who is a fan of a return to the drachma.
