{"id":10358,"date":"2026-06-12T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10358"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:35:00","slug":"nikos-moraitis-on-tsipras-he-has-squandered-a-great-deal-of-trust-kasselakis-was-a-tragic-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10358","title":{"rendered":"Nikos Moraitis on Tsipras: He has squandered a great deal of trust\u2014Kasselakis was a tragic mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The assessment that <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b> &#8220;squandered a great deal of trust&#8221; was expressed by the lyricist <b>Nikos Moraitis<\/b>, speaking on the show Direct with Giorgos Evgenidis.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that he does not intend to meet with the former prime minister if he returns to political life. <b>\u201cI love him, but I won\u2019t go,\u201d<\/b> he said characteristically.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about his acquaintance with Alexis Tsipras, he revealed that he met the former prime minister after his electoral defeat in 2019. <b>\u201cI\u2019m glad I met him in defeat and not in victory. I\u2019m all for defeat,\u201d<\/b> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nikos Moraitis criticized the choices made by the leadership of SYRIZA leadership before the 2019 elections, saying that he advised Alexis Tsipras to pursue a more aggressive strategy. \u201cThe one who wins is the one who uses \u2018you\u2019 and \u2018your.\u2019 <b>If the opponent is ahead, you go with hard rock,\u201d<\/b> he said characteristically. He clarified, however, that he never wrote speeches for Alexis Tsipras, noting nonetheless that he had collaborated with <b>Stefanos Kasselakis<\/b>. He was particularly critical of Mr. Kasselakis, saying that <b>\u201cit was a tragic mistake; the only thing that consoles me is that it was a mistake made by many people\u201d<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding current political developments, he argued that Alexis Tsipras is now expressing positions he should have articulated earlier. \u201cNow Tsipras is saying what he should have said in the past,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyricist Nikos Moraitis expressed the view that Alexis Tsipras \u201chas squandered a great deal of trust\u201d while speaking on the show Direct and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}