{"id":7011,"date":"2026-05-23T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7011"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:42:00","slug":"alexis-tsipras-his-former-teammates-took-him-for-a-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7011","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Tsipras: his former&#8230; teammates took him for a ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wearing a <b>Barcelona jersey<\/b> to convince that he has a&#8230; big team, <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b> continued his communications offensive <b>in the run-up to the announcement of the new party<\/b> next Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Only he had done something similar in the past when he presided over <b>Syriazas,<\/b> which ended up moving <b>between decay and incorruption.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the <b>endless soap opera<\/b> continues on the left, <b>where former comrades turn into the harshest and most relentless critics. The latest episode in this serial was written most eloquently by <b>Euclid Tsakalotos.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Leftist by&#8230; day<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When the former economic czar was asked to answer whether Alexis Tsipras is ultimately a leftist, he chose to say with a touch of phlegmatic humour that it <b>depends on the day<\/b> you ask his former leader. A line from which anyone can see what his own ministers are accusing him of.  <\/p>\n<p>The spike was not just the wit of the moment, but <b>captures the essence of an entire political journey full of contradictions, illusions and a peculiar sense of political destiny. <\/b> <\/p>\n<p>When you are trolled by people with whom you have shared the seats of power, then <b>your political narrative is not on solid footing,<\/b>even if those people have long since parted ways.  <\/p>\n<p>However, Euclid Tsakalotos&#8217; criticism goes deeper, <b>touching the core of the former prime minister&#8217;s political ego<\/b>. For the former minister added that to believe that because Tsipras&#8217;s history with the <b>Left, <\/b>the history of the party in general is over, <b>the history of the party in general is over, shows a rather <b>overconfident and egocentric approach to reality. <\/b> <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, he stressed that the <b><a href=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/nea-aristera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Left<\/b> is trying to keep its balance in an environment of intense pressures and centrifugal tendencies, emphasizing his <b>categorical refusal to follow any new leadership project of A. Tsipras,<\/b> arguing that it <b>has no structures. <\/b> <\/p>\n<p>This discussion of political identity and stability of views <b>inevitably evokes memories of the SyrizaAnel administration, <\/b>a time marked by some of the biggest political lies of the post-independence period.  <\/p>\n<p>Political observers remember the times when <b>the promise to abolish the memoranda with a law and an article vibrated the squares of the &#8220;Indignant&#8221;, <\/b>when the tearing up of the loan contracts was presented as a mere formality and the ENFIA, a tax described as unfair and unconstitutional, would be immediately abolished. <b>Promises that turned out to be hollow words, designed only to hijack the vote of the people.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Reality, however, proved to be a very harsh and unforgiving judge for the former prime minister attempting to rebrand himself. <b>The famous hard bargaining of the first half of 2015, which would have forced the markets to dance to the tune of our dalliance, led with mathematical precision to the closure of banks and the imposition of humiliating capital controls. <\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The climax of the political mockery was, of course, the referendum, <b>when the &#8220;No&#8221; vote that Tsipras himself instrumentalized was translated within hours into a third and heavier memorandum.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The lies, however, did not stop there. <b>Not only was ENFIA not abolished, but it was made permanent, expanded and renamed, further burdening the middle class. <\/b>The infamous <b>settlement<\/b> of people&#8217;s debts and protection of first homes gave way to electronic <b>auctions and foreclosures<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>The retrospective <b>evil term &#8220;delusion&#8221;<\/b>, used by A. Tsipras&#8217;s <b>superstition<\/b> to justify the huge promises that were not kept, has gone down in history as the <b>official confession of an unprecedented political bluff that the country paid dearly.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>This violent landing was in reality nothing more than a <b>cynical capitulation<\/b> in order to maintain its grip on power. The conversion of A. Tsipras, <b>a product of utter political defeat and amateurism,<\/b> revealed the extent of the ideological nakedness of the project.  <\/p>\n<p><p>The third memorandum showed that <b>the red lines were made of sand,<\/b> with Greece being saddled with new burdens, public property mortgaged and hope eventually turning into deep disappointment.<\/p>\n<p><b>Restoration operation<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Today, the former prime minister&#8217;s operation to return to the limelight is taking place in a completely different and hostile landscape. The trolling of his former close associates, such as Euclid Tsakalotos, shows that <b>his period of political dominance and immunity is irretrievably over<\/b> and that the old methods of communication management no longer work. <\/p>\n<p>And finally everything shows that <b>A.Tsipras&#8217;s political rehabilitation is no longer the responsibility of his political opponents, but of his own, his former comrades who know him better than anyone else.<\/b><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearing a Barcelona shirt, in order to convince that he has a great team, Alexis Tsipras continued his communication attack ahead of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7011","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\/7011","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=7011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}