If politics were the science of bankruptcy management, SYRIZA executives would be teaching at the world’s greatest universities.
Koumundourou has turned into a vast… “funeral parlour”, where the “heirs” are publicly arguing not about how to save the patient, but about whether the funeral should be a single ballot or a group switch to the Alexis Tsipras.
The spectacle offered by Kostas Zacharias and Nikos Pappas is the ultimate monument to political surrealism.
On the one hand, press spokesman Zachariadis, in the role of “prophet” of the new entity, informs us that “Tsipras is not one place and SYRIZA is another“. Apparently, in his worldview, the party is like a rented room: you leave it when it gets old, take the furniture and go to the one across the street that has just been renovated by the same owner.
On the other hand, Nikos Pappas, in a desperate attempt to keep up appearances, is baptizing unfounded things about the dissolution of SYRIZA. It is truly moving to see Pappas talk about “history” when he and his cronies have managed to turn a once-powerful party into a political joke struggling to avoid extinction. His suggestion of “elections by the people” if there is no agreement on a leader is even reminiscent of the familiar “we don’t know what to do, let’s set up a ballot box to pass the time.”
The irony of this is beyond imagination. If there is such a big “programmatic coincidence” and if Tsipras is the “natural leader” of it all, then why really was all this drama necessary? Why is Mr. Tsipras didn’t stay in SYRIZA to rebuild it, instead of setting up scenes in Chalandri and forcing his deputies to look for “outlets” to move to the new world?
While the country is moving forward and the Mitsotakis government is facing the challenges of real life, in Koumoundourou they are living their own “civil war of ruins”.
