Jiorgos Siakantaris may now side with Alexis Tsipras but a few years ago he was saying the worst about the former prime minister and Syriazas.
Jiorgos Siakandaris has been installed as the head of the Working Group of the Tsipras Institute while the former prime minister himself announced the well-known writer’s collaboration with him with drum rolls. In fact, he is one of the persons who play a key role in the organization of Alexis Tsipras’s new political project.
But Giorgos Siakantaris a few years ago did not say the best about Alexis Tsipras. In fact, he was saying… the worst.
Specifically, just two years ago, in an interview, explaining the continuous decline of SYRIZA, he stressed that the “bad governance of SYRIZA” was to blame. In fact, in the same interview he claimed that the opposition Syriza’s government was worse than his Syriza government: “The Syriza is something unprecedented: it convinced more about its governance than its opposition. Therefore, his bad opposition has worn down this party too.”
In 2024, the well-known professor and author was talking about Alexis Tsipras‘s bad governance and opposition. After all, he himself was a fierce opponent of Syriza during the years of Tsipras government.
The shitstorm
But the head of the Tsipras Institute working group came out a week ago in Naftemporiki and said exactly the opposite: he called the Tsipras government the… “the best government of the last decades”! But what has changed in such a short period of time?
How about the fact that the professor was offered a political position? Because his role is very important in the organization of the Tsipras party.
And most importantly, what do Alexis Tsipras‘s former comrades in Syriza and the New Left say, now that they know that such a person, who used to say the worst about the Syriza government, is at the forefront of the new political venture?
Because let’s not kid ourselves, calling the Syriza government bad and then two years later finding it to be the best in recent years is a magnificent fucking stunt. Similar in scope to that of Alexis Tsipras in 2015.
