The preparation for the upcoming July convention of SYRIZA is under way, with the party’s Central Committee convening this weekend. Party leader Alexis Tsipras will preside over an administrative meeting before the Central Committee convenes.

The main points of discussion at the weekend’s convention will be the pre-convention procedure regulations, Central Committee positions on pre-convention dialog and coming up with a party statute draft. Alexis Tsipras is expected to open the convention.

Mr. Tsipras’ intention is to end the “party within a party” situation and while he appears determined to ensure that different tendencies and trends exist within SYRIZA, he wants to move away from the atmosphere of fragmentation and internal dispute that dominates lately.

Beyond that, issues that are to be discussed are the election procedures for representatives and president in the upcoming convention and other organization matters.