{"id":1427,"date":"2026-04-19T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:15:00","slug":"sakellaridis-pasok-and-tsipras-are-fighting-for-second-place-it-is-not-our-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"Sakellaridis: PASOK and Tsipras are fighting for second place, it is not our business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A harsh attack on both <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b> and <b>PASOK<\/b> was launched by <b>Gavriel Sakellaridis<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, <b>Gavriel Sakellaridis<\/b> and the <b>New Left<\/b> are increasingly distancing themselves from both Alexis Tsipras and <b>PA\u03a3OK<\/b>. At least the majority of the <b>New Left<\/b> expressed by <b>Gavriel Sakellaridis<\/b> and <b>Euclidis Tsakalotos<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, <b>Gavriel Sakellarides<\/b> admitted that neither <b>PASOK<\/b> nor <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b> can defeat <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/b> and even attacked them, saying that they are competing with each other for second place. And this conflict, he argued, should not concern the Left, which must find a new front to express itself in a majority.<\/p>\n<p>As the new president of the <b>New Left<\/b> said, &#8220;The real question is why <b>PASOK<\/b>, <b>Tsipras<\/b>, <b>Syriza<\/b> don&#8217;t get along so that <b>Mitsotakis<\/b> can fall? Do they really think that they alone can beat <b>Mitsotakis<\/b>? What we are seeing is a race to see who comes in second, a competition between Mr <b>Tsipras<\/b>&#8216;s gestating party and <b>PASOK<\/b>. Who comes second is not a matter for society. And can I tell you something else? It&#8217;s not about us, the Left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Attack on Tsipras and Androulakis<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>Gavriel Sakellaridis, who was a spokesman for <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b>&#8216;s government, stressed that both <b>PASOK<\/b> and the former prime minister want to run as independents, so the <b>New Left<\/b> has no intention of working with them. Instead, he claimed, the party is looking to create a new &#8220;popular front&#8221; on the left.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, what <b>Gavriel Sakellarides<\/b> says is no coincidence as there are reports that there is a pre-election collaboration between <b>New Left<\/b>, at least those who remain in it, and <b>Giannis Varoufakis&#8217; <b>Mera25<\/b>. Besides, the former government spokesman does not say the best things about <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b> while the former prime minister appears to be unhappy with him, as with most of the <b>New Left<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>As he said, &#8220;If a broad progressive pole could be formed that could really threaten and change the terms of the political game against the <b>Mitsotakis<\/b> government, realistically speaking, that would obviously pose the question in a very different way to us as well. The stakes would be: do you want <b>Mitsotakis<\/b> to fall or not? Unfortunately, this is not realistic based on what <b>Androulakis<\/b> and <b>Tsipras<\/b> are saying.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gavriel Sakellaridis launched a harsh attack on both Alexis Tsipras and PASOK.<br \/>\nIt seems that Gabriel Sakellaridis and the New Left &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","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\/1427","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=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}