It was January of 2026 when through leaks and reports it was becoming clear that the new party Tsipras would need the support of a media centre.
Political reports and parapolitics columns about the lunches and dinners of the current EΛAS leader with shippers and businessmen were coming and going. And possibly in addition to any financial support and sponsorship, the request was and is to seek MMEs who will… play in exclusive promotion of Tsipras’ party positions and activity and not opposition only generally and indefinitely to the government.
Whatever the former prime minister at every opportunity the former prime minister has trumpeted that any decisions he made in either his governance or his political rebranding were the result of a popular mandate, based on the needs of society and not on dependencies on the domestic banking or media system.
He says and reiterates that he “has no sponsors” and “owes no one”, prompting laughter to the point of… tears. As if no attempt was made during his time in government to create new balances or favorable… connections with business centres, despite his rhetoric to the contrary. Wasn’t one such operation the “manipulation” on television licenses?
And as it seems, Tsipras’ political comeback with the Hellenic Left Coalition is not without media support. Ali to the… orphans of Syriza.
Amidst the general strangeness of Alexis Tsipras relations with Koumoundourou and his former comrades in Syriza and New Left is the tactic being formed in the media. Channelheads and executives of MME are showing off the positions of SYRIZA MPs to host ELAS executives on TV sets.
And while SYRIZA as a party organizationally and functionally… disintegrated after the decisions of the Central Committee and only the building and the Parliamentary Group remained, with this media tactic that is taking shape, it is also losing its… signal on the channels. He is left with the Parliamentary benches and the chairs in the… cafeteria of the Parliament.
Tsipras’ media dynamics was shown by the event organized by the former prime minister’s institute for the economy at the Piraeus Municipal Theatre, which was covered by specific MMEs of the Left.
It was the same media that played a leading role in the communication operation of absolute separation between Tsipras and Kasselakis. To… separate the wheat from the chaff. Now it’s the separation of ELAS from SYRIZA and the… independents of NEAR.
Cue
The cue was given by the song of Stamatis Spanoudakis from the evening of the party’s presentation in Thiseio. “You will come like lightning, the country will have a feast, sea, earth and sky, in your light!” This is yet another indication of Alexis Tsipras’… political vanity. Lightning and light, with the pretextual purpose of changing the political scene in Greece.
There is certainly no room and… no reason for components, wings, umbrellas and other fillers, former and more former comrades, comrades-in-arms and fellow travellers. And above all, there is no reason to make it appear that Tsipras wants them with him, frozen or reheated.
In the front line
Whatever the final people geography, coordinating the party’s media presence is a closed affair. The press spokesperson is Theonis Koufonikolakou, who has already carried a heavy burden of communication in her interviews by promoting the new party’s basic positions and principles. A lawyer, former Assistant Ombudsman for Children’s Rights, and president of the European Network of Children’s Advocates.
The communication team is completed by four deputy press representatives: Kostas Karpouchtsis, an economist, business consultant specialised in supporting small and medium-sized enterprises, but also in the use of financial instruments such as ESPA and the Recovery Fund.
Giorgos Balatsoukas, a lawyer with trade union activity since his student days. Nikos Nifoudis, with studies in political science and economics, a businessman who has also served as a member of parliament with Potami. And Anna Papadopoulou,a lawyer, who has served as PASOK’s Human Rights sector head and then deputy Justice sector head, from 2022 to 2026.
