Maybe Alexis Tsipras wanted to show that he remains antisystemic, as he used to do when he didn’t go on some channels, but it probably backfired on him.
Alexis Tsipras released the email he sent to djournalists Elena Varvitsioti and Victoria Dendrinou to respond negatively to the invitation to participate in the SKAI based on their book entitled “The Last Bluff”.
Alexis Tsipras chose to respond with a personal… attack on journalists, showing that nothing has changed from the old days and on this level.
Specifically, he refuses to participate, claiming that “I do not wish by my participation to legitimize the unprecedented attempted character assassination against me through your book. In which, without any evidence, no real evidence, you falsely accused me that as prime minister of the country I ”traded” in a sordid transaction with the then president of the Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, the resolution of a critical national issue, the Macedonian issue, for no cut in pensions”.
The attack on a personal level is not alien to the logic by which Syrizas has come full circle in the political life of the country under his presidency and it seems that it will be on the front page of the new party as well.
And that’s because – as both journalists pointed out – there is no mention in the book about a transaction involving Alexis Tsipras’s Northern Macedonia with no pension cuts.
The issue was made worse when trolls and big-name supporters released the… controversial passage from the book in which there is no reference to it. There is something specific. There is a reference to Alexis Tsipras’ meeting with Juncker and the latter’s reference to the need for Greece to show solidarity with Europe, especially on the name issue.
“‘You may not realize it now,’ he (Juncker) said to Tsipras, according to a European official familiar with the content of the conversation, ‘but we are doing a lot for you. I want you to do something for us too. A few years from now I want you to solve the Macedonia issue. Europe works by compromise, and a solution to the name issue would be important for the stability of the Balkans,” he said,” the journalists’ book said.
This is character assassination for Alexis Tsipras, but also a reference to a transaction on the pension issue. And it is a reason for attack against the two journalists.
On the other hand, what is written in the book and Alexis Tsipras’ reaction could however be a reference to the “fly” and to the one who has it and flies.
