{"id":10942,"date":"2026-06-16T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10942"},"modified":"2026-06-16T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:01:00","slug":"tsiprass-sudden-love-affair-with-the-polls-the-official-opposition-of-our-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10942","title":{"rendered":"Tsipras\u2019s sudden love affair with the polls: the official opposition of\u2026 our hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Tsipras <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b> <b>has grown fond of polls<\/b> and even claims that <b>official opposition in the minds of citizens\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p>So suddenly\u2014as Antonis Remos sings\u2014Alexis Tsipras \u201cfell in love with the polls.\u201d Yes, <b>the very ones he denounced until the 2023 elections, <\/b>when he realized firsthand that not only were they not fighting him, but they were even giving him a poll boost due to the bullying then being carried out by <b>SYRIZA<\/b> was engaging in at the time. Just like <b>the ones he denounced from 2016 until the 2019 elections<\/b> with the equally well-known results.<\/p>\n<p>Alexis Tsipras, as president of SYRIZA<b>, has attempted to expose polling firms.<\/b> Through parliamentary inquiries and questions in the House. <b>In 2021, he even attacked firms <\/b>accusing their heads or representatives of ties to New Democracy and the government of <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In both cases, the election results provided the <b>answer to the former president of SYRIZA<\/b>, who today, as president of <b>ELAS<\/b>, the 9th Party he founded, not only acknowledges them but almost praises them, stating that from the day his party was announced until today <b>it has become\u2026 the official opposition in the minds of the citizens. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>How do we say <b>official opposition of our hearts,<\/b> how do we say president of our hearts? Well, something like that, although this must be the first time someone has declared themselves the official opposition through polls. Of course, this is a tactic and a way to set the tone, but however you look at it <b>for someone to come out and declare themselves the official opposition and then talk about winning the national elections, things have probably gotten a bit out of hand. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Essentially, this concerns <b>PASOK, <\/b>which is also vying for victory in the elections, is fighting to regain second place in the polls, and is technically the official opposition, even though it came in third in the 2023 elections. <\/p>\n<p>In any case, if one looks at <b>SYRIZA\u2019s attacks<\/b> under the leadership of Alexis Tsipras <b>against polling firms<\/b> and the statements they were forced to issue in response, and if one adds the targeting of their officials and the personal attacks, then hearing him adopt them and declare himself a third party<b> is laughable.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, following his standard tactic, Alexis Tsipras repeated on Monday evening at a rally in Nikaia that <b>there is new money<\/b>. A tactic you have to stick with until the end. After all, as is well known,<b> for the (new) president of the (new) SYRIZA, the problem lies with truth and reality when they do not agree with him.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Tsipras has grown fond of opinion polls and even claims to represent the official opposition in the minds of the public\u2026<br \/>\nSo suddenly\u2014he sings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10942","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\/10942","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=10942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}