{"id":4920,"date":"2026-05-11T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:38:00","slug":"toxic-war-and-who-can-stand-war-between-androulakis-tsipras-and-karystianos-for-the-2nd-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4920","title":{"rendered":"Toxic war and who can stand: war between Androulakis, Tsipras and Karystianos for the 2nd place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tsipras, Androulakis, Karstianou, and KKE, know that anyone who manages a decent electoral record will avoid extinction, if only temporarily.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The situation in the opposition looks like quicksand, as behind the public statements about <b>&#8220;progressive processes&#8221;, &#8220;social fronts&#8221; and &#8220;democratic alliances&#8221;<\/b> a brutal battle of mechanisms, camarilla and survival is unfolding. A war of small courts and personal strategies, where the only real stakes are not the overthrow of the government, but who will keep second place and who will avoid political annihilation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Alexis Tsipras etries to come back as a &#8220;new saviour&#8221;, as if the collective memory was erased all at once. The man who left, leaving behind a broken SYRIZA, a space without identity and a society exhausted by political adventurism, <b>now <b>appears<\/b> as the supposed guarantor of &#8220;progressive reconstruction&#8221;. <\/b>In reality, however, what he is trying to do is his own personal political resurrection through a new entity tailored to the ambitions of himself and his close apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Nikos Androulakis sees the earth leaving under his feet. <b>PASOK<\/b>, instead of evolving into the dominant pole of opposition after the collapse of SYRIZA, remains trapped in mediocrity, poll stagnation and political apathy. But the biggest problem for Charilaou Trikoupis is not the government. It is the fear that a Tsipras party could remove critical forces, break the fragile balance and send PASOK even into third place &#8211; maybe even fourth. <\/p>\n<h2>The next day<\/h2>\n<p>And that&#8217;s where the real panic begins.In the political wells, behind closed doors and public &#8220;leaks&#8221;, the debate about the next day has already begun.Not in terms of a political proposal, but in terms of internal party survival. Who will challenge Androulakis? When will the succession battle begin? Which MPs are already measuring distances? Who are waiting for a misstep in order to appear as a &#8220;solution&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Within this blurred landscape, the presence of Maria Karustianou is being used by various centres as a political and communicative tool of pressure against the system of power, but also as a catalyst for rearrangements in the opposition. Some attempt to include her in narratives of <b>&#8220;antisystemic renaissance&#8221;,<\/b> others to use her as a battering ram against the government and others as a lever of pressure for new political adhesions.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the KKE is watching the conflict, knowing that the disintegration in the area of the so-called <b>Centre Left<\/b> and the former radical Left is creating conditions for political reorganization. Without engaging in scenarios of partnerships and personal deals, he sticks to his own line, denouncing that behind the so-called &#8220;progressive processes&#8221; are the same worn-out policies that ruled, compromised and ultimately failed society.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is harsh: <b>the opposition&#8217;s problem is not just its demographic weakness. It is its absolute lack of credibility.<\/b> Citizens are watching a contest of personal strategies, egos and power mechanisms, while they themselves are struggling with the problems of everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>And the closer the time of crisis &#8211; the elections &#8211; approaches, the more it is revealed that behind the big talk of a &#8220;progressive party&#8221; there is no unified plan, but an endless game of chairs. <b>A political&#8230; &#8220;Survivor&#8221;, where everyone fears everyone and most of all fears the election result.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Because they know full well that the next ballot box will not just decide who comes in second. It will decide who will survive politically and who will pass permanently into the zone of political decline.<\/p>\n<h2>Sad reality<\/h2>\n<p>At the end of the day, behind the big words a sad reality is revealed: a fragmented space that is fighting not to govern, but to not disappear. Alexis Tsipras is attempting his personal comeback on the ruins he himself left behind. <\/p>\n<p>Nikos Androulakis sees the (political) ground receding and PASOK in danger of being transformed from a second force into a party of internal insecurity and succession. And the use of various individuals and any social anger as tools proves how deeply cynicism has penetrated the political game.<\/p>\n<p>And in this landscape of decadence, <b>citizens are watching an opposition that is trapped, which looks more like a political stock exchange of ambitions than a force for subversion. <\/b>This is why the upcoming ballot will not just be a battle of percentages. It will be the toughest test of political survival for those who thought society easily forgets.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Tsipras, Androulakis, Karystianou and the KKE know that whoever manages a decent electoral record will avoid, even temporarily, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4920","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\/4920","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=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}