Alexis Tsipras Alexis Tsipras had been preparing his party from the day he resigned as president of SYRIZA and not from the day he left his seat in parliament.
“Our proposals have been thoroughly developed over the past three years,” he said during his appearance at the “Economic Courier” conference, thus indicating that he had planned, from the day after the defeat —perhaps even before it—to leave SYRIZA and leave his former comrades in the lurch.
And this reference alone confirms that he had planned from the start the steps he has taken to date by shifting the… debts of his administration onto his former comrades as well as the… debts of his opposition tactics during the 2019–2023 period.
With the above statement he also undermines… himself and everything he has said about why he decided to return to the central political stage.
“I have no ambition, but on the other hand, I cannot remain in the comfortable silence and institutional comfort of the back benches and fail to see that right now there is such a huge void in the political system,” he stated in early April during his interview on ANT1 with Nikos Hatzinikolaou, seeking to emphasize that he made this decision after seeing the void in the opposition.
Except that the mention that he has been preparing the program for three years contradicts what he had said in that interview. Essentially, Alexis Tsipras is contradicting himself though this isn’t the first time, since the (new) president of the (new) party is in the habit of saying one thing and its opposite depending on where, to whom, and why he is speaking.
At least that is what his former comrades and once-close associates have stated.
Really, over there at SYRIZA, headquartered on Koumoundourou Street, how did he spend three years preparing his program? In other words, he was preparing a new party while he was still in his old party. And his comrades are running around begging him to take them with him?
