The obsession of Alexis Tsipras with appointments with history is starting to resemble… stalker.
Since 2012, the former prime minister, former president and former MP of Syriza, dates history and, with the exception of 2015 when it did him a favour but then he probably… regretted it, has never met it again.
It’s not just that he’s copying his Andreas Papandreou from as far back as 1981 and the then-election period, it is that he insists that history probably owes him something, perhaps from the period when he managed to fill everyone with illusions and then lead the country to the brink.
In yet another post on social media, he appeared to describe the gathering he is preparing for tomorrow, Tuesday, to announce his new party, as a “rendezvous with history”, and one that no one should miss.
A similar appointment was made in 2023. From Lavrio in May of that year, announcing his programme for the then elections that he would win even by one vote to form the… progressive government – I wonder who he reminds us of?
He spoke of an appointment with history.
Specifically, he was declaring “we have a duty to be present for the appointment with history”which didn’t come in the end, though it could be called historical in that election, the defeat and the margin of victory over the first party, namely ND of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Alexis Tsipras met with history in 2015. A… blackmail appointment for which the indignation of the Greek citizens who gave him a second chance in the same year was instrumentalised. It was an appointment that history would probably like to forget, but he persists, wanting not just to be with it but to change it.
However, he has not changed. With the same rhetoric and populism in the marquee he prepares to enter the battle for his appointment although he must remember that history usually repeats itself as a farce.
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