Centre has been and gone, as Alexis Tsipras – seeing that he has no chance in this political arena – returns to the… ruling Left.
One step away from exclaiming “the second time will be different” is Alexis Tsipras, who has returned to factory settings in terms of catastrophism, toxicity and populism. His inability to register penetration rates in the centre ground has led him to do a 180-degree turn – not a 360 – in order to glean what he can from the left.
His reference to a “governing left” simply comes to lock in the audience he is addressing and is the same as the one he left amanati to SYRIZA before he split it through the election of Stefanos Kasselakis with the well-known consequences. This is why he requests the dissolution of both SYRIZA and New Left as well as the surrender of the seats of those MPs who are invited to follow him as a full complement to his caravan.
However, his rhetoric is already a copy of the one he used in the previous years both as prime minister and as leader of the opposition, while he seems to move in the logic of the Thessaloniki programme, promising the land of Promise, as… messiah who will bring the Left into government.
Now “the second time will be different” is hardly something he’ll use since it’s Paul Polakis, with whom he keeps a… safe distance… and takes mantra notes. But the… drakogenia probably cannot be the party’s anthem since the relevant lyrics belong to the father of Nikos Pappa, who is also among the cadres Alexis Tsipras does not want in his party.
