{"id":4009,"date":"2026-05-05T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2026-05-05T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:14:00","slug":"why-left-of-centre-instead-of-centre-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4009","title":{"rendered":"Why &#8220;Left of Centre&#8221; instead of Centre-Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The choice of <b>Alexis Tsipras <\/b>to use the term &#8220;<b>Left<\/b> of the <b>Centre<\/b>&#8221; instead of <b>&#8220;Centre-Left&#8221;<\/b> is not accidental. <\/p>\n<p>It represents a <b>conscious ideological and tactical choice<\/b>that suggests the intention for a &#8220;new progressive alliance&#8221; that will not be identified with the Center but <b>will have a leftist orientation<\/b> to the exclusion of the term Center Left, which has historically been identified with social democracy. <\/p>\n<p>The <b>electrical differentiation<\/b> he believes allows him to appeal to the <b>PASOK<\/b> voters without causing <b>&#8220;allergic&#8221; reactions<\/b> to the <b>Syriazas<\/b> base and the radical left in general. <\/p>\n<p>In essence, the &#8220;Left of the Centre&#8221; <b>conceptually is empty of content<\/b> &#8211; it is a communication manoeuvre rather than an ideological shift &#8211; so that politically it refers to the <b>&#8220;governmental&#8221; Syriza.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The Tsipras Institute&#8217;s strategy, at least as reflected in the <b>Manifesto,<\/b> focuses on the convergence of the Left, ecology and the <b>&#8220;Corbinist&#8221; version of social democracy<\/b> as implemented by <b>Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/b> in Spain.<\/p>\n<p> Hence the <b>&#8220;nervousness&#8221;<\/b> in Charilaou Trikoupis, as <b>Nikos Androulakis<\/b> is under pressure to prove that <b>PASOK remains the dominant pole,<\/b> while Alexis Tsipras attempts to &#8220;swallow&#8221; the centre-left from the &#8220;Left of the Centre&#8221; <b>at the same time.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The months between now and the elections will show whether &#8220;Left of Centre&#8221; will assimilate the centre-left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Tsipras&#8217; choice to use the term &#8220;Left of the Centre&#8221; instead of &#8220;Centre-Left&#8221; is not accidental.<br \/>\nIt is &#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","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=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}