Two comments in just five days!
I don’t know, it could be my idea of course, but, I have a feeling there was a atypical “race” between Maria Karystianou and Alexis Tsipras, over who will pioneer his own new political project. While the audience each is addressing may be ideologically – as it turned out in the process – different, we cannot ignore the common denominator that connects them, and that is none other than anti-systemicism. The antisystemicity that Alexis Tsipras evangelized and became prime minister in 2015, the antisystemicity that Maria Karystianou in 2026 also embraces.
Yesterday we saw at the Olympion, a hard crowd I would venture to write, but we didn’t see the crowd that some Media made us expect to attend the launch of the new political entity.
On the 26th, however, the only certainty is that we will see a clear attempt to “sell” Alexis Tsipras’ new venture to the centre-left. We will see a Alexis Tsipras more person-centric than ever, attempting to build a profile that is strongly reminiscent of the old political times of the eighties, and opening bridges to the whole left and centre-left space. The retirements of cadres in recent months, the movements and public statements, show that there is an organised effort to regroup around him.
So, almost a year before the elections, the political scene is already entering the election trajectory. Two new parties will essentially try to split the opposition pie. But the real question is not who will be opposite the government, but who will be the next prime minister. And it seems that Mitsotakis, knowing very well the game of the political chessboard, and since the very day after his election he has been implementing all his pre-election commitments – governing with stability and consistency, has laid a strong foundation for the third four-year term of his government.
