As the ELAS approaches its first anniversary\u2014in its first month of operation\u2014the… celebrations keep coming one after another. Wherever President Alexis goes, they set up a round stage (\u201ccake\u201d in the language of production companies), so that the leader is surrounded by his supporters and the shot is filled with people from all sides.<\/p>\n
Of course, to avoid giving gossipmongers ammunition with the phrase \u201cAlexis and the people\u201d\u2014an approach considered outdated\u2014the new party\u2019s organizers found a solution: citizens take the stage before Alexis, and he then appears to respond to them. This, too, is a truly unbearable clich\u00e9 for an effort they\u2019ve supposedly been preparing for years. Politicians did this back in the \u201990s, and we all know how that turned out.<\/p>\n
Manolis Christodoulakis organized a very interesting event yesterday at a trendy\u2014one might even say posh\u2014hotel in the Plaka neighborhood. As soon as our Cat saw the invitation, he threw his cap in the air, as he never misses an opportunity to enjoy a stroll beneath the Acropolis. Essentially, the former secretary of PASOK gathered the\u2026 KIDISO, since at the event on the environment and democracy he invited, among others, George Papandreou and Filippos Sachinidis. Who, of course, delivered the usual heroic rhetoric regarding these two substantive issues and how they are connected in their minds.<\/p>\n
For the record, our Cat also spotted Stefanos Parastatidis, Kostas Kartalis, and a man with an English name that he didn\u2019t catch, since it\u2019s a language the \u201cRed Cat\u201d doesn\u2019t know very well. You see, he didn\u2019t study at Columbia; he took a few classes at a neighborhood tutoring center, peeking in through the window. <\/p>\n
The most interesting part, however, was the invitation. Manolis is set against a red background of fire, while George Papandreou and the others are in green. Now that\u2019s what I call knowing how to send messages to the subconscious.<\/p>\n
Alexis Tsipras is \u201ccakes,\u201d and the \u201cman of the people,\u201d Nikos Androulakis, is baking in the oven. The PASOK president, too, succumbed to the clich\u00e9 of the farmers\u2019 markets, without adding any particular flair to the performance. He stuck to the classics: the angry leader with his MPs surrounded by all kinds of vegetables and citizens hailing him because he\u2019s among them. <\/p>\n
In fact, one woman told him that television doesn\u2019t do him justice and that he\u2019s more handsome in person. We recall that, years ago, when another woman had said something similar about Kyriakos Mitsotakis, PASOK claimed it was staged.<\/p>\n
In any case, Anna Diamantopoulou is now so closely identified with Nikos Androulakis that, while the president was at a farmers\u2019 market in the northern Attica Basin, the Network\u2019s president was at a farmers\u2019 market in the southern suburbs of Athens. You might ask, \u201cA former Commissioner for \u2018Smart Europe\u2019 at farmers\u2019 markets?\u201d The answer is: if you want to be elected rather than appointed, you go.<\/p>\n
As for her alliance with the PASOK president, the strategy that seems to have dictated it is simple: a weak leader is the best ally for a challenger facing others who want to become leaders. <\/p>\n
That is one point of view, but there is a risk that this association could drag both of them down together. And \u201cThe Red Cat\u201d points this out, because he sees Pavlos Christidis gaining ground both in the neighborhoods of the South and on the internal party \u201cstock market\u201d of Harilaou Trikoupi Street.<\/p>\n
P.S.: It would be interesting to know about the cost and funding of the Hellenic Police (ELAS) events. Parliamentary parties receive state subsidies and are subject to spending controls. It is not right that the same rules do not apply to everyone.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Zoe Konstantopoulou is preparing her own response to the media storm unleashed by the Hellenic Police. The president of the Freedom Movement is getting ready to set sail. Yesterday she posted a photo on social media showing a dark event venue in the midst of preparations, with the smokestacks in Keratsini in the background. It looks like a post-apocalyptic landscape, accompanied by the question: \u201cAre you ready?\u201d Isn\u2019t that a line from a game show?<\/span><\/b> <\/p>\n She\u2019s preparing a comeback<\/b><\/p>\n But let\u2019s stick with Zoe. Since entering politics, Maria Karystianou, she faces the risk of not only not being the only female political leader in Parliament, but also of seeing her rival\u2019s back. And she has noticed this not only in the polls but also among party officials she once counted on as her own, whom she now sees wavering. Stefanos is trailing behind<\/b><\/p>\n Stefanos Kasselakis may be talking about running independently, but the cat knows better. Stefanos is listening to ideas right now and accepting proposals. He isn\u2019t rejecting them, since his goal is to get his own back. He believes that Alexis Tsipras deceived him and will do whatever it takes to give him the response he deserves.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As ELAS approaches its first anniversary\u2014marking its first month of operation\u2014the… cakes keep coming one after another. Wherever the president goes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177","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=11177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
So, she is preparing a counterattack. According to information from \u201cKokkino Gato,\u201d the president of the Freedom Movement will not be alone on the stage she is preparing. She\u2019s going to pull an ace out of her sleeve. And we don\u2019t mean some announcement, but a person who will be the talk of the town.<\/p>\n