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"Let us not sacrifice SYRIZA in the name of the government," Panagiotis Lafazanis demanded in an interview for Avgi, arrogating the decisions related to the Left Platform's MPs to the party leadership.

Lafazanis qualified the hasty recourse to elections in September as a bad attempt to copy the most pathological practices of New Democracy and PASOK.

He described the cabinet's negotiating tactics as a complete fiasco, pointing out that unfortunately the government has dogmatically clung to the euro in its mistaken belief that Greece's exit from the Eurozone is the greatest peril.

The former minister said that the eurozone and the European Union, instead of substantially reforming themselves, are only spinning round in circles; he predicted that Europe will only change if a single country, followed by a group of countries, proves capable of escaping from "the prison of the euro".

Lafazanis' statements come as a response to a publication in Iskra.gr, which confesses views close to those of the Left Platform. The publication slams the government for its alleged intentions to hustle the Memorandum through Parliament by 15 August and then announce snap elections even in early September.

According to the site's sources, the almost summer election will be used to clear the party lists of the MPs who voted against the Memorandum as well as those party members who still cling to SYRIZA's original policy against the memoranda.

Meanwhile, Nikos Pappas, Tsipras' close aide, has sent a stern warning to SYRIZA's inside. He also reprimanded the scuttlebutt about snap elections and the breaking apart of the Left Platform as it exacerbates the party split.

"SYRIZA has its own bodies, constitution, and, most importantly, membership, which won't allow anyone to be a 'party within the party', the minister of state told Real News.

He also debunked as completely preposterous the notion that all problems of the Greek economy arise from its participation in the common currency, which already is the unabashed position of SYRIZA's left-wing.

Pappas pointed out that all in-house party matters will be settled once and for all at the party congress in September. But he also agreed that "individual rallies, the drive to create a front against the government, are sending a signal of a certain independent tack."

The state minister explained that SYRIZA will not participate in a special purpose government; he also emphasised that the incessant talk of elections does not help.

Pappas still leaves open the possibility of early elections. He said: "If some of our MPs decide to shed their trust in the government, the split caused by the recent parliamentary votes will inevitably turn into a vacuum."