{"id":10906,"date":"2026-06-15T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10906"},"modified":"2026-06-15T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:46:00","slug":"akis-skertsos-takes-a-sharp-swipe-at-the-alexis-tsipras-institute-it-says-a-lot-without-actually-saying-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10906","title":{"rendered":"Akis Skertsos takes a sharp swipe at the Alexis Tsipras Institute: It says a lot without actually saying anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sharp <b>response <\/b>to the <b>statement<\/b> by the <b>Alexis Tsipras Institute<\/b> was given by the <b>Minister of State, Akis Skertsos<\/b>, via a post on Facebook. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur people say that too many words are poverty. Like the poverty we experienced under the bankruptcy and overtaxation program of the former SYRIZA and current ELAS. <b>And unfortunately, the INAT announcement says a lot without actually saying anything<\/b>,\u201d Mr. <b>Skerzos<\/b> points out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that in his post, the Minister of State makes a special reference to Euclid Tsakalotos, saying that he was <b>the only one \u201cwho understood and admitted that SYRIZA\u2019s government program failed at the polls in 2023 because it was not\u2014as it should have been\u2014realistic and costed<\/b>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Skerzos\u2019 post in full:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Response to the announcement by the Alexis Tsipras Institute regarding the opposition\u2019s tax populism.<\/p>\n<p>Our people say that empty talk is poverty. Like the poverty we experienced under the bankruptcy and overtaxation program of the former SYRIZA and current ELAS. And unfortunately, the INAT statement says a lot without actually saying anything.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the only one who understood and admitted that SYRIZA\u2019s government program failed at the polls in 2023 because it was not \u2014as it should have been\u2014realistic and costed, was Mr. Tsakalotos.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that is why he was \u201cpunished\u201d by being expelled from Mr. Tsipras\u2019s new-old party, which continues undeterred with the same bankrupt and failed policies.<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cto err twice (or thrice) is not the mark of a wise man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of State Akis Skertsos issued a sharp response to the statement by the Alexis Tsipras Institute in a Facebook post.&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906","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=10906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}