{"id":5152,"date":"2026-05-12T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5152"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:59:00","slug":"syriza-arguing-over-whether-to-book-a-table-at-tsipras-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5152","title":{"rendered":"SYRIZA: arguing over whether to book a table at Tsipras&#8217; house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">If politics were <b>the science of bankruptcy management<\/b>, <b>SYRIZA<\/b> executives would be <b>teaching<\/b> at the world&#8217;s greatest universities. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Koumundourou has turned into a<b> vast&#8230; &#8220;funeral parlour&#8221;<\/b>, where the &#8220;heirs&#8221; <b>are publicly<\/b> arguing not about how to save the patient, but <b>about whether the funeral should be a single ballot or a group switch to the Alexis Tsipras<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The spectacle offered by <b>Kostas Zacharias<\/b> and <b>Nikos Pappas<\/b> is the ultimate <b>monument to political surrealism<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">On the one hand, press spokesman <b>Zachariadis<\/b>, in the role of <b>&#8220;prophet&#8221; of the new entity<\/b>, informs us that &#8220;<b>Tsipras is not one place and SYRIZA is another<\/b>&#8220;. Apparently, in his worldview, <b>the party is like a rented room: you leave it when it gets old, take the furniture and go to the one across the street that has just been renovated by the same owner<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">On the other hand, <b>Nikos Pappas<\/b>, in a desperate attempt to keep up appearances, is baptizing <b>unfounded<\/b> <b>things about the dissolution of SYRIZA<\/b>. It is truly moving to see Pappas talk about &#8220;history&#8221; when he and his cronies have managed to turn a once-powerful party into a <b>political joke struggling to avoid extinction<\/b>. His suggestion of &#8220;elections by the people&#8221; if there is no agreement on a leader is even reminiscent of the familiar &#8220;<b>we don&#8217;t know what to do, let&#8217;s set up a ballot box to pass the time<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\"><b>The irony of this is beyond imagination<\/b>. If there is such a big &#8220;programmatic coincidence&#8221; and if <b>Tsipras<\/b> is the &#8220;natural leader&#8221; of it all, then <b>why really was all this drama necessary? Why is Mr. Tsipras didn&#8217;t stay in SYRIZA<\/b> to rebuild it, instead of setting up <b>scenes<\/b> in Chalandri<\/b> and forcing his <b>deputies<\/b> to look for &#8220;<b>outlets<\/b>&#8221; to <b>move to the new world<\/b>?<\/p>\n<p>While the country is moving forward and the <b>Mitsotakis<\/b> government is facing the challenges of real life, <b>in Koumoundourou they are living their own &#8220;civil war of ruins&#8221;<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If politics were a science of bankruptcy management, Syriza executives would be teaching at the world&#8217;s largest universities.<br \/>\nThe &#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5152","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\/5152","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=5152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}