One pie, three who hold the knife, and a battle over who gets the biggest slice.
And that description is none other than what exactly is going on in the Center Left, with PASOK, SYRIZA and a new party Tsipras trying to divide not only voters but also cadres.
Satisfied unused in the party space they belong to, they are now in constant discussions preparing their transcription, but they are not alone, since active parliamentarians or politicians who feel threatened by the new players entering their constituency are starting to study the electoral map, looking for areas with more chances of election and less “competition”.
And all this after PASOK has now become the green SYRIZA, and I use the word “downgraded” very consciously, since the once-powerful party has embraced Koumoundourou’s tactics and toxicity, overlooking where this attitude has led the latter. No difference at all between them, they’ve simply come to compete over who gets to utter the name Mitsotakis more times in their leaders’ press releases and speeches in parliament.
As for the nascent Tsipras party and its relationship with SYRIZA, the question is simple: the chicken made the egg or the egg made the chicken, and somewhere in the answer lies his inextricable relationship with PASOK.
In essence, the three parties – the two existing ones and the one that keeps coming and never arrives – look like triplets fighting over which one will get the most attention from its mother. This reminds me of the way they are competing to win the vote of the particular electorate moving through the field, who now have to choose between the same political tactics, but with a different name.
I don’t know, but my guess is that at some point all three leaders would do well to realize that no needle is going to come loose unless they change course, they’re just going to sit around dealing an opposition deck of 54 cards, and now most of them marked.
