New faces but old tactics in Tsipras’s ELAS under Tsipras, who are repeating the very same promises made in the past by the former president of SYRIZA.
Aside from taxing… wealth (not Mickey Mouse’s) and the yachts that… cruise, Alexis Tsipras is also throwing grandiose headlines into the debate—ones he has promised in the past, with the consequences still weighing on citizens’ shoulders ten years later.
The Hellenic Police spokesperson spoke on Monday about “reestablishing the welfare state”, adding that this would be achieved through funding generated by the fight against corruption, the restriction of direct contracts, and the crackdown on cartels, thereby defining—as the (new) comrades of the (new) president, setting the economic tone for the new political party.
July 2016
In July 2016, with his characteristic bombastic style, Alexis Tsipras was rebuilding the welfare state. In his remarks at the time during the meeting of the Government Council on Social Policy, he spoke of the “old political establishment” that “left a social majority unprotected in the maelstrom of the economic crisis” and presented the… seven pillars of the reconstruction of the welfare state.
And, of course, he concluded by saying the following: “The new welfare state cannot be anything other than for the people, with the people, and by the people.”
What happened is well known, and citizens realized that the first time Left of Alexis Tsipras and his (former) comrades is facing the restructuring that is now taking place… re-establishment with his (new) comrades, who may not have a clear picture of those “heroic days”.
The bottom line is that it’s serving up rehashed old stories and is trying to use old tricks to fish in specific voter pools in order to create conditions that will allow him to maintain second place. It’s reselling the same product to anyone willing to buy it.
In 2016, it was rebuilding the welfare state. Now it’s… reestablishing it. Using the same tactics and the same hollow promises as the… evil establishment that ultimately thrived and reigned during the crisis, and the… cartels he mentions today but does not name.
