{"id":9926,"date":"2026-06-10T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=9926"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:10:00","slug":"polakis-is-out-of-control-just-because-tsipras-resigned-should-the-universe-drop-its-pants-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=9926","title":{"rendered":"Polakis is out of control: Just because Tsipras resigned, should the universe drop its pants? (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Paul Polakis<b><\/b> launched a blistering attack on Famello and Tsipras, gave a ten-day ultimatum and spoke of &#8220;<strong>trousers down<\/strong>&#8221; and a &#8220;<strong>bastardly situation<\/strong>&#8221; in Syriza. <\/p>\n<h3>\n<h3> <b>Polakis patch: &#8220;Because Tsipras resigned, should the universe drop its pants?&#8221;<\/b> <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>In particularly high tones, <strong>Paulos Polakis<\/strong> took a stand, directly questioning the <strong>SYRIZA<\/strong> leadership&#8217;s attitude towards <strong>Alexis Tsipras<\/strong>&#8216;s political move, leaving accusations of behind-the-scenes collusion. <\/p>\n<p> The MP for Chania argued that either there is already some <strong>agreement<\/strong> that neither side admits publicly, or the decision of the <strong>Central Committee<\/strong> constitutes &#8220;<strong>a show of servility<\/strong>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>At the sharpest point of his intervention, Polakis asked: &#8220;<strong>Because Tsipras resigned, should the universe resign, drop its pants and go?<\/strong>&#8220;, dismissing the possibility that Syriza could unconditionally adapt its strategy to the former prime minister&#8217;s moves. <\/p>\n<h3>\n<h3> <strong>Outcome to Famello &#8211; Bring agreement in 10 days<\/strong> <\/h3>\n<p> <strong>Paulos Polakis<\/strong> called on <strong>Socrates Famello<\/strong> to immediately present the data of contacts with <strong>Alexis Tsipras<\/strong>&#8216;s political initiative, even setting a specific timeframe. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Famellos must bring agreement with Tsipras and tell us what is being done,&#8221; he said, adding that public support for one party by the head of another cannot be done without prior <strong>negotiation<\/strong> and programmatic understanding. <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, he warned that if there were no clear answers in the next ten days, &#8220;<strong>this bastard situation<\/strong> cannot continue,&#8221; calling for a meeting of the <strong>Political Secretariat<\/strong> and the <strong>Central Committee<\/strong> to reassess the facts. <\/p>\n<h3>\n<h3> <strong>Fire on the polls and call for a front of the Left<\/strong> <\/h3>\n<p> The MP for Chania also blamed the <strong>leadership team of SYRIZA<\/strong> for the polls image of the party, stressing that no convincing explanation has not been given for the significant drop in its ratings. <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, he reiterated his proposal for a <strong>united ballot<\/strong> of the forces of the left and the broader democratic party, in case there is no agreement with <strong>Alexis Tsipras<\/strong>&#8216;s political move. <\/p>\n<p>Polakis issued an invitation to the former prime minister&#8217;s party, the New Left<b><\/b>, <strong>Mera25<\/strong>, <strong>KKE<\/strong>, <strong>Prato<\/strong> and ecological movements for a broad <strong>programmatic agreement<\/strong>, arguing that the crucial issue is not who will lead, but agreement on specific policy positions and goals. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Pavlos Polakis launched a fierce attack on Famello and Tsipras, gave a ten-day ultimatum and spoke of &#8220;lowered pants&#8221; and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9926","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\/9926","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=9926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}