The \u201cRed Cat\u201d was there. He heard with his own ears what Kostas Laliotis say (at the 1996 succession conference of PASOK): \u201cYou, Aki, president, and you, Kostas, prime minister!\u201d You might ask me, \u201cWhat are you bringing this up for now?\u201d <\/p>\n
The memory came flooding back when I heard Louka Katseli say that Alexis Tsipras and Nikos Androulakis need to come to an agreement and run together in the elections. It didn\u2019t assign specific roles, but the spirit of the article is similar to that kind of division.<\/p>\n
However, the deal\u2014once again\u2014stalls because both leading figures want it all. Basically, the question that needs to be answered is this: If ELAS and PASOK merge into a single entity, who will be the prime ministerial candidate? <\/p>\n
Alexis? Nikos? Or a third person? Could Louka, for example, be accepted? Or Giorgos (Papandreou\u2014we\u2019ll meet him in the lines that follow), who is always ready to serve his country?<\/p>\n
This is what Anna Diamantopoulou hears in the background, and she decided to take up her weapon. The country\u2019s former EU commissioner didn\u2019t just take it out on Charis Doukas for his position that PASOK and ELAS should cooperate. <\/p>\n
She also said something else: that the relevant decisions (regarding the alliances) will be made based on the election results, and it will be up to the Greek people to decide. Does that make sense? It does.<\/p>\n
However, anyone who watched his interview on OPEN closely realized that her wording probably \u201cslipped out\u201d a bit, as it doesn\u2019t align with the strategy that even her colleagues knew she had decided on. But that\u2019s the job of journalists. To make you feel at ease and lead you to cross the offside line.<\/p>\n
Spray, wipe, and you\u2019re done! That\u2019s more or less how Yanis Varoufakis thinks; he\u2019s calling on anyone interested to run for parliament with his party and then\u2014if elected\u2014to\u2026 step down! To become an independent. In other words, get MeRA25 into Parliament, call me \u201cYanis\u201d on the parliamentary floor, and then let everything go to hell.<\/p>\n
Strictly\u2026 inappropriate<\/b><\/p>\n
As for Zoi\u2019s nerves, our Cat has already informed you in good time. The president of the Freedom Movement is trying on social media to pick a fight with Alexis Tsipras personally. She\u2019s addressing him directly with the usual accusations of unreliability, betrayal, etc., adding a new label: unfit.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a reminder from the Cat. Do you remember in the early 2000s when Costas Simitis had begun to see Costas Karamanlis\u2019s back? When pollsters had come up with the question \u201cWho is best suited to be prime minister\u201d? <\/p>\n
New Democracy kept telling PASOK this, but Simitis was the \u201cbest suited.\u201d Until he resigned before the elections and the hot potato of defeat was handed to\u2026 George Papandreou (your Cat had warned you).<\/p>\n
Now, as for Maria Karystianou\u2019s image\u2014with her carefully selected outfits and fancy cars\u2014what can we say? We\u2019ve heard various things about the finances of the association of relatives of the Tempi victims, but our Cat doesn\u2019t speak unless he knows for a fact and doesn\u2019t spread rumors. <\/p>\n
But it would be a good idea for the new party to disclose its sources of funding as well. Gas, staff, coffee, events. Simple things, but they add up. Especially those who present themselves as moral guardians in politics should be the first to put their own house in order.<\/p>\n
Also, it would be a good idea\u2014and this applies to both Elpida and ELAS\u2014to present their governing bodies and leadership to the public. So that people know who is behind each idea, and so that anyone can ask for explanations on an issue that concerns them. Unless, of course, that\u2019s the secret of the new parties: to keep their faces and platforms hidden so they can go with the flow, just like Coca-Cola.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Reasonable Assessments<\/b><\/p>\n
Well, the best\u2026 SYRIZA reporter (by far) is Adonis Georgiadis. The Minister of Health predicted that only Famellos, Gerovasili, and Zachariadis will walk through the doors of the Hellenic Police. <\/p>\n
All the other residents of Koumoundourou will be left empty-handed. Of course, Adonis doesn\u2019t speak based on information, but on the logic he has proven he possesses. He thinks that if he brings them all back, \u201che\u2019ll fail again!\u201d Of course, this could also happen with the people he already has. Because SYRIZA\u2019s DNA is already strong in the new party. <\/p>\n
Pure arrogance<\/b><\/p>\n
We were saying that over at Alexis\u2019s ELAS, they\u2019ve \u201clet a bit too big for their boots, and yesterday Giorgos Siakantaris came out to confirm it. \u201cI went with Tsipras because he had a vision of coming in first and winning an outright majority,\u201d said the well-known professor, and predicted that \u201cNikos Androulakis won\u2019t even come in second.\u201d <\/p>\n
If you don\u2019t call that arrogance, what is it? Especially when it comes to a political space where he had been active in the past, supporting a more\u2026 right-wing direction. Just a note to the professor: \u201cThe Red Cat\u201d isn\u2019t the only one with a good memory in Greece. There are many who remember\u2014and remember well\u2014a great deal. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
We told you so…<\/b><\/p>\n
The newspaper you\u2019re holding in your hands (and the website you\u2019re reading) has been at the forefront of the revelations regarding Ms. Kovesi\u2019s role. Months later, other media outlets are following suit, as everyone is slowly coming face-to-face with the truth: the target wasn\u2019t New Democracy\u2014it was Democracy itself! And the target was not (and is not) Greece. <\/p>\n
The target was and is Europe. Because the vilification of the political class undermines parliamentary democracy and the European project. The weekend is starting, and \u201cThe Red Cat\u201d offers some food for thought. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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