The former prime minister\u2019s \u201cjibes\u201d at the leadership team of SYRIZA leadership team, which wants to join ELAS.<\/p>\n
No matter how well the\u2026 advertising campaign for the political rebranding and left-wing reunion Tsipras<\/b>, much remains to be done to avoid the risk of a fiasco. <\/p>\n
First and foremost, the party must establish its identity and create the sense\u2014or the convincing illusion\u2014that it is taking root in the Center-Left and then go to the polls as Kyriakos Mitsotakis\u2019s main political rival. <\/p>\n
The \u201cTzokonta\u201d with her enigmatic smile is good,<\/b> and the enthusiastic \u201crecruitment\u201d of the popular Theopoula is also good, but the key component of a political party is its people. The members and officials who will communicate the political party\u2019s positions and proposals. <\/p>\n
And there, the reality doesn\u2019t quite match the dazzling smile of the Greek Left Alliance\u2019s communications campaign. They are desperately seeking willing \u201clotophagi\u201d and\u2026 public statements.<\/b><\/p>\n
The former prime minister is struggling to find officials for his party. With the creation of ELAS and the dissolution of SYRIZA and the New Left<\/b>, Tsipras has completed a full circle, betting on the possibility that centrifugal forces will contribute to his political rise.<\/p>\n
By resigning from the leadership of SYRIZA, he took responsibility for the electoral defeat in 2023<\/b>, but at the same time began preparing his comeback with a new party of his own, attempting to convey to the public that his comrades\u2014and not he himself\u2014were to blame for the problems within SYRIZA and the poor election results. Three years later, in a party with a new name and a different communication strategy\u2014but with nearly 90% of its leadership coming from SYRIZA\u2014he is once again the president. <\/p>\n
With the release and presentation of \u201cIthaca\u201d <\/b>, Tsipras attempted to \u201csort through\u201d SYRIZA and the New Left for his party and to put his criteria regarding the failed\u2014worn-out, indifferent\u2014neutral, and socially and politically active\u2014who are nevertheless fully prepared to become mere figureheads. <\/p>\n
That is, to become those leftists and political prisoners held hostage by old, outdated, and discredited parties\u2014who would willingly sign a declaration of repentance and renunciation of\u2026 old leftist ideology in order to be \u201creleased\u201d from the traditional parties, avoid being exiled to inactivity, and remain active in social and political life. <\/p>\n
Apparently, Tsipras, in studying history, has spent considerable time on the chapter covering the interwar period, the Metaxas dictatorship, the Occupation, and the Civil War\u2014periods in which the \u201cdeclaration of loyalty\u201d had a profound impact. And it was not just repression, but also the moral and ideological annihilation of leftists and communists, since signing the declaration\u2014which was even published\u2014 meant renouncing their ideas and their comrades. <\/p>\n
At the time, it was a form of public shaming used by\u2026 uncompromising leftists <\/b>targeting their former comrades as traitors, deserters, and informants, and, ultimately, leading to social isolation. It seems that the leftist Tsipras is also adopting some of this practice in his new political venture.<\/p>\n
He cut ties with Konstantopoulou, Varoufakis, Lafazanis, and those around them early on.<\/b> Key figures from the \u201cfirst-time Left\u201d abandoned Tsipras\u2019s SYRIZA after the U-turn on the referendum, and have been lambasting him ever since.<\/p>\n
Of the others who marched alongside him during the years of coalition government and official opposition and now want to follow him to ELAS, Tsipras is demanding a kind of declaration of repentance. <\/b><\/p>\n
They must resign from their seats and await his decisions regarding their future. The man who\u2014for some, at least\u2014was responsible for the electoral defeats of 2019 and 2023, and for the\u2026 schemes to dismantle SYRIZA, is closing the door and setting tough conditions.<\/p>\n
And as it appears, the only people who will definitely not be welcome in Tsipras\u2019s new party are Pavlos Polakis, Nikos Pappas, and most likely Rena Dourou. <\/b><\/p>\n
What about the old\u2026 party nomenklatura of SYN and later SYRIZA\u2014Yiannis Dragasakis and Euclid Tsakalotos? If they seek to do so, would a statement of repentance \u201ccover\u201d it?<\/p>\n
The only party structure that can logically support the\u2026 backbone of ELAS is the\u2026 battered and deeply divided SYRIZA and its temporary party offshoot, NEAR.<\/p>\n
For Efi Achtsioglou<\/b>, who left NEAR and resigned as a member of parliament, many believe that the path to Amalia will be smoother. On the other hand, some others claim that Tsipras has already signaled to her about an impending candidacy. \u201cPella or nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
To Alexis Harits<\/b>, the Southern Sector of Attica is being \u201csuggested\u201d rather than the electoral safety net of Messinia. As for Nassos Iliopoulos<\/b>, the choice is to fight in the challenging electoral district of Western Attica rather than in Athens A, as a continuation of his political involvement with the City of Athens.<\/p>\n
These\u2026 statements were useful to Alexis Tsipras during the coalition government period as well. When, in a show of defiance toward the creditors, he declared from Crete that the SYRIZA-ANEL government would do whatever it wanted with the accounting \u201csurpluses\u201d resulting from excess tax revenue, he undertook the obligation to submit, through the Minister of Finance, Euclid Tsakalotos,<\/b> \u2026a binding statement to the Eurogroup in which it would commit\u2014among other things\u2013 that the allowance given to retirees to offset the cut in the EKAS supplement is a one-time payment and that the freeze on the VAT increase on the islands would apply only for 2017. In other words, he had Tsakalotos make a \u201cstatement\u201d on his behalf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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