Nikos Karanikas launches a fierce attack against Alexis Tsipras and the officials surrounding him in the EL.A.S.., citing feudalist attitudes, a “private party,” the absence of political criticism, the alienation of the Left, and the transformation of former comrades into “subjects” of the former prime minister.

Alexis Tsipras’s former advisor, Nikos Karanikas, in an extensive social media post, argues that a new “type of person” has formed around the former prime minister, which he compares to the vassals and subjects of the feudal era.

According to him, these are people who view Alexis Tsipras as a “benefactor” and believe they have no right to criticize him politically. As he notes, this mindset harks back to earlier times, when people believed they owed absolute loyalty to their master, adopting the logic that “you don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”

Criticism of the “car party” and the loss of leftist identity

Nikos Karanikas, on his Facebook account, argues that the officials supporting Alexis Tsipras are not bothered by neoliberalism, the person-centered nature of the political project, the demagoguery, the absence of a program, and the political shifts that, in his view, have taken place in recent years.

At the same time, he refers to a “private party”, which, he argues, revolves around the figure of the former prime minister and runs counter to the principles of the Left and democracy. According to him, those who continue to support him have fully accepted this transformation, with the sole aim of returning to power.

Mr. Karanikas also refers to allegations that have been made from time to time regarding the period of SYRIZA-ANEL administration, citing publicly stated reports by Kostas Vaxevanis regarding corruption, as well as the allegations made by Stefanos Kasselakis regarding “slush funds,” as well as the resignation of Stavros Kontonis, which he links to changes in the Penal Code.

Furthermore, he argues that these same circles did not react to what he describes as Alexis Tsipras’s involvement in a “coup” against Stefanos Kasselakis, nor to the loss of the Left’s so-called “moral high ground”.

“Court Academics” and political alienation

In his post, Nikos Karanikas also takes aim at individuals who support Alexis Tsipras’s new political venture, referring to “court academics”. He makes specific reference to the university professor Aris Stylianou, a member of the scientific council of the former prime minister’s initiative, arguing that his public statements treat criticism of Tsipras as an act of “ingratitude.”

Mr. Karanikas argues that former comrades and colleagues with a political background on the Left have turned into followers of the former prime minister, unquestioningly accepting choices and behaviors that they would have denounced in the past.

At the same time, he argues that Alexis Tsipras is unable to accept that his rise to political power was based on the party, on the party officials and the voters who propelled him from the Coalition Youth to the premiership. As he notes, without this collective journey, the former prime minister would have remained a political unknown.

In conclusion, Nikos Karanikas argues that since 2019, Alexis Tsipras has been surrounded by people who act as flatterers, a fact that distances him from reality and leads him, as he states, from one political defeat to another. In fact, he believes that this trajectory may result in a comparative strengthening of the image of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, whom he describes as politically more predictable and consistent in his choices.

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