The repeated blunders by officials of ELAS have led to contradictions regarding whether or not it has a platform.
Alexis Tsipras, speaking at the 7th O.T. FORUM on June 12, stated that “we have made dozens of revisions,” adding that “I just want to rank the five most important ones, at the risk of leaving out some significant ones,” while earlier he noted that the program of the party he founded had been in the works for three years.
It was the day he promised free travel on public transportation for everyone in Attica and Thessaly and was handing out 500 euros to healthcare workers and teachers, as well as affordable… energy.
Since then, we’ve seen Hellenic Police officials talk about taxing 1.500 tax identification numbers and collecting 4.5 billion euros annually, for taxing owners of luxury homes with swimming pools, and even for taxing speedboats that… go fast, as well as other proposals that go even beyond the Thessaloniki Program and the tearing up of the memoranda “with a single law and a single article.”
The situation began to border on the absurd , and the Hellenic Police found a solution. Party representatives began arguing that the program isn’t ready, that it’s supposedly being drafted, and that all proposals and opinions are being taken into account, but that it will be completed by September and presented at the Thessaloniki International Fair.
Essentially, we’re talking about a program… a pop-up program that appears whenever Alexis Tsipras wants to show… readiness and disappears when his cronies go from one blunder to the next, prompting everything from sarcastic comments to outright ridicule online and beyond.
The reality is probably somewhere in the middle. There is no actual program, but there is a… program of promises based on the logic of the Thessaloniki Program, full of illusions and promises rooted in a strategy of highlighting class differences, with ELAS seeking to emphasize its left-wing profile.
