Alexis Tsipras is to file the first declaration for his upcoming new party, expecting statements of support with those he has already agreed to work with.
Alexis Tsipras is due to be in Volos in the coming days, supposedly for his book. There he will present the first declaration with basic principles for the future of the Left, which will essentially structure the party he is preparing.
The text drafted by Giorgos Siakandaris together with a group of executives of the Tsipras Institute has a specific goal, which is more communicative than substantive: to get former comrades, with whom the former prime minister has agreed on the new party, to declare their support for these principles.
In other words, he expects declarations of… allegiance from his former comrades with the aim of getting them to accept a personal party with him deciding everything while the other cadres will have the role of accomplices.
According to reports, this document will be a marriage of principles from social democracy, the radical left and ecology. That is, not something specific but the usual ideological grandstanding that gels with a particular audience.
And it is with interest that we await the persons who will declare that the declaration expresses them.
The first names
The former prime minister is expecting statements of support from Petros Kokkalis, who heads Kosmos and previously worked with Syriza, Alexis Haritsis who resigned from the leadership of New Left, Socrates Famellos who intends to leave Syrrizas and Dionysis Tebonera, who is destined for an important position in the party he is preparing.
Also, the former prime minister would like to have next to him executives who have left PASOK, such as Charis Kastanidis and Antonis Saoulidis, in order to signal an opening to those who are disappointed with the Androulakis leadership.
In any case, the environment of Alexis Tsipras is signalling in all tones that it will not accept as candidates all the executives from Syrizas and New Left, as the aim is for at least half of the candidates to be new faces. Besides, with many, such as Pavlos Polakis, political coexistence is now impossible.
The speech in Volos will be decisive, as it will be seen there who the former prime minister will take and who he will leave. Or rather, it will be seen who has already made some sort of deal with Alexis Tsipras and who will be left on the “outside.”
