{"id":11654,"date":"2026-06-19T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11654"},"modified":"2026-06-19T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:42:00","slug":"george-siakantaris-pasok-and-syriza-are-toxic-parties-they-are-politically-finished-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11654","title":{"rendered":"George Siakantaris: PASOK and SYRIZA Are Toxic Parties\u2014They Are Politically Finished (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The self-dissolution <\/b>of PASOK <\/b>and SYRIZA <\/b>was proposed by one of the close associates of Alexis Tsipras<\/b> and the main architect of the ELAS manifesto,Giorgos Siakantaris<\/b>, stating that these are parties that \u201care politically finished<\/b>\u201d and \u201cthe public considers them toxic<\/b>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe future of SYRIZA <\/b>looks bleak. I think that SYRIZA and PASOK, as parties, are politically finished. They are toxic to Greek society, which is why, even before Tsipras took this position, I was in favor of their self-dissolution <\/b>,\u201d Mr. Siakantaris told ONE.<\/p>\n

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He recalled in this context that \u201cI had told Genimata<\/strong> and Androulakis<\/strong> that if you want to move this forward, you must dismantle the old structures<\/b>; the old structures must be removed from the picture.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to the observation that Tsipras <\/b>is also toxic <\/b>because the people in SYRIZA were his choice, Mr. Siakantaris <\/b>explained, \u201cWhen I say \u2018toxic,\u2019 I don\u2019t mean negative <\/b>for the history<\/b> of Greece and its political and party system. PASOK, in particular, has a positive legacy<\/b>, perhaps the most positive, but the political process has led to it being perceived as toxic in the public consciousness, just as DIMAR <\/b>was considered\u2014which entered the political arena and received 0.31%.<\/b>\u201cIt joined the government and lost half its support; it left the government and lost the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, when asked to comment on signs of arrogance within the Hellenic Police <\/b>under Alexis Tsipras, Giorgos Siakantaris replied, \u201cArrogance? Where? I don\u2019t share that view. It\u2019s not arrogance to say that you arethe second-largest party<\/b> when you actually are. That there may be maneuvers by people in Tsipras\u2019s inner circle who want to exaggerate <\/b>and become even more \u201cTsipras-like\u201d <\/b>than Tsipras himself\u2014that may be the case, but Alexis Tsipras shows no signs of arrogance.<\/b> \u201cWe all judge, and we are all judged\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of Alexis Tsipras\u2019s close associates and a key architect of the party\u2019s manifesto proposed the dissolution of PASOK and SYRIZA…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11654","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\/11654","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=11654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}