A patriot and a revolutionary, standing with the people and supporting major investments, Alexis Tsipras is here, just like another Andreas Tependris.
Alexis Tsipras appeared at the National Council of the I.X. party he founded, once again promising money from the “money tree” he brought over from the headquarters of SYRIZA, showing that not only has he not changed, but he is once again peddling the same fairy tale of the revolutionary semi-teenager who is already over 50.
From “the sea has no borders” he moved on to “leftist patriotism” and, in a brief speech, once again displayed his “either way” tactic, since, while presenting himself as the Robin Hood of the poor and the people—accusing the 1% of living off the backs of the 99%—he also spoke of major investments that might come, perhaps because the investors know that he doesn’t really mean what he says about taxing them—as he demonstrated during the 2015–2019 period.
With a sort of… “half-grown-up” style—a proverbial catchphrase from the SYRIZA era for certain people over 40 and 50 who claim to be revolutionaries– Alexis Tsipras is attempting to appeal to young people thinking he’s making a splash, although this didn’t go very well in 2023, despite what pollsters and analysts at the SYRIZA headquarters on Koumoundourou Street were telling them during his presidency.
Alexis Tsipras essentially declared himself an economic wizard —as he himself has said, the economy is his strong suit—after speaking of growth and benefits worth billions of euros that he will secure through… their integrity and the moral revolution that, apparently last time, got lost among the institutes of Florence, scandals such as Novartis, Justice Ministry outposts operating within the Prime Minister’s Office, and unbridled divisive rhetoric such as “it’s either us or them” and “either we finish them off or they finish us off.”
The mention of Pavlos Marinakis in the film “The Crazy Fifty-Year-Old”, starring Lambros Konstantaras as Andreas Tependris, seems to perfectly capture Alexis Tsipras’s tactics. After all, Andreas Tependris pretended to be something he wasn’t, closed deals without having a profession himself, and promised money he didn’t have.
