{"id":11081,"date":"2026-06-16T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11081"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:43:00","slug":"dimitris-kairidis-alexis-tsiprass-original-sin-and-his-successive-defeats-at-the-hands-of-kyriakos-mitsotakis-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11081","title":{"rendered":"Dimitris Kairidis: Alexis Tsipras\u2019s Original Sin and His Successive Defeats at the Hands of Kyriakos Mitsotakis (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"4\"><b>Dimitris Kairidis<\/b> commented on the new <b>poll <\/b>results that place <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b> in second place, while questioning his ability to serve as a credible alternative leader.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">Dimitris Kairidis, a member of parliament for <b>New Democracy<\/b>, Dimitris Kairidis, referring to the findings of the latest public opinion polls and the reappearance of Alexis Tsipras on the political scene, and offering a <b>stern assessment of the former prime minister\u2019s poll numbers and political trajectory<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">Mr. Kairidis noted that, despite the obvious realignment of forces on the center-left, <b>the momentum of the new initiative still falls short of his previous electoral performances<\/b>. As he pointedly noted, \u201c<b>Tsipras is clearly in second place, with a lower percentage than when he left. He left with 18%, disheartened, and is now at his best at 14%\u201d<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">Continuing his remarks, the New Democracy MP expressed strong doubts about <b>whether the Greek people can once again trust a figure who has been associated with successive electoral defeats against the current government<\/b>. Raising a crucial question about the future of the political system, he stated: \u201c<b>What is the poll trying to tell us\u2014that the alternative candidate will be Tsipras? He was defeated in 2019, in 2023, and in every contest against Mitsotakis\u201d<\/b>.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"el\" dir=\"ltr\">Kairidis on the polls: \u201cTsipras is clearly in second place, with a lower percentage than when he left. He left with 18%, disheartened, and now he\u2019s at his best at 14%. What is the poll trying to tell us\u2014that Tsipras will be the alternative? He was defeated in 2019, the\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/R92DrvUZxE<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 tomanifesto.gr (@tomanifesto) June 16, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">Concluding his remarks, <b>Dimitris Kairidis<\/b> focused on the 2015 period of governance, arguing that <b>Mr. Tsipras has not assumed historical and economic responsibility for the choices made that year<\/b>, which came at a very heavy cost to citizens. \u201c<b>He bears the heavy burden of the original sin of 2015. For which he has offered no explanation. Through which he burdened the Greek people with 100 billion<\/b>, according to the documentary,\u201d the MP concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimitris Kairidis commented on the latest poll results, which place Alexis Tsipras in second place, while questioning his ability to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11081","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\/11081","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=11081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}