Maybe Alexis Tsipras <\/b>wanted to show that he remains antisystemic, as he used to do when he didn’t go on some channels, but it probably backfired on him.<\/p>\n
Alexis Tsipras released the email he sent to d<\/b><\/b>journalists<\/b><\/a> Elena Varvitsioti and Victoria Dendrinou<\/b> to respond negatively to the invitation to participate in the SKAI<\/b> based on their book<\/b> entitled “The Last Bluff”.<\/b><\/p>\n
Alexis Tsipras chose to respond with a personal… attack on journalists,<\/b> showing that nothing has changed from the old days<\/b> and on this level.<\/p>\n
Specifically, he refuses to participate, claiming that “I do not wish by my participation to legitimize the unprecedented attempted character assassination<\/b> against me through your book. In which, without any evidence, no real evidence, you falsely accused me that as prime minister of the country I ”traded” in a sordid transaction with the then president of the Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, the resolution of a critical national issue, the Macedonian issue, for no cut in pensions”.<\/p>\n
The attack on a personal level is not alien to the logic by which Syrizas has come full circle in the political life of the country under his presidency<\/b> and it seems that it will be on the front page of the new party as well.<\/p>\n
And that’s because – as both journalists pointed out – there is no mention in the book about a transaction<\/b> involving Alexis Tsipras’s Northern Macedonia with no pension cuts.<\/p>\n
The issue was made worse when trolls and big-name supporters released the… controversial passage from the book in which there is no reference to it. <\/b>There is something specific. There is a reference to Alexis Tsipras’ meeting with Juncker and the latter’s reference to the need for Greece to show solidarity with Europe, especially on the name issue.<\/b><\/p>\n
“‘You may not realize it now,’ he (Juncker) said to Tsipras, according to a European official familiar with the content of the conversation, ‘but we are doing a lot for you. I want you to do something for us too. <\/b>A few years from now I want you to solve the Macedonia issue. Europe works by compromise, and a solution to the name issue would be important for the stability of the Balkans,” he said,” the journalists’ book said.<\/p>\n
This is character assassination for Alexis Tsipras, but also a reference to a transaction on the pension issue. And it is a reason for attack against the two journalists.<\/b><\/p>\n
On the other hand, what is written in the book and Alexis Tsipras’ reaction could however be a reference to the “fly” and to the one who has it and flies.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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