Alexis Tsipras said -clearly- that he decided to… return because he found -he says- that there is no normality.
We heard that too…
One could take it another way. To think that Alexis Tsipras’s statement that he is returning because he has found that there is no normality was seen as opportunityafter he invested there last time by instrumentalizing a wave of indignation by filling liesand promises to citizens with a program Thessaloniki that he never implemented, but did the opposite of what he promised from 2015 to 2019.
He squeezed the middle class, bled pensioners dry, taxed everything that moves and everything that doesn’t, mortgaged public property for 99 years, and attempted to control the joints of power starting with Justice by setting up, according to former minister in charge Stavros Kontoni, a sub-ministry in the Meximos building.
He invested in the criminalization of political life and the vilification of political opponents and of parties that currently declare or leave open the possibility of working with him (see. PASOK) in order to “get Mitsotakis out of office…”, while in his… memoirs he blamed everything on his former comrades, whom he now declares that he will welcome on condition that they do not question his leadership.
With rebranding now in abeyance, Alexis Tsipras is attempting a return to the political scene because he saw a void in the opposition and to avoid early political retirement.
“I cannot remain in comfortable silence, the country must return to normality and stability,” said the … messiah of the left, who dismantled his party to set up his own, possibly assessing that his crushing defeats were the fault of others. Of course, unable to find cadres, he opened the doors of Amalia on conditions – lest he appear to have failed – and with a face control but with specific specifications for certain individuals.
The fact that he left the centre he wanted to catch with rebranding and keeps talking about the left needing to recover also shows his inability to broaden his target audience. His return to toxicity and populism is evident, as is of course the divisive rhetoric with which he built his political career.
With Nikos Androulakis and Maria Karustianou as his opponents, he is preparing for the battle for second place and therefore what we will see in the near future will be a Tsipras of old with “it’s us or them” as his frontline. The comeback could even be taken as a joke, especially with the effort he is making to highlight what he himself had described as his “trump card”, namely economics.
However, what is certain is what he himself had stated after handing over the Syriza chairmanship, namely that “we will not be bored”
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