With all eyes turned to next Wednesday, when Alexis Tsipras is expected to reveal his cards for the future while responding to his critics, SYRIZA and New Left officials are watching closely. Through the former prime minister’s statements, many will understand whether their story matters or whether Alexis Tsipras has decided to move with different logic and different people. At Amalias, they are preparing for the book presentation next Wednesday, while Alexis Tsipras continues the aggressive communication strategy he launched with his associates shortly before the book’s publication, which appears to be bringing results.
In this context, social media appears to be a key tool. Yesterday, the former prime minister appeared in a satirical mood in a new video thanking everyone who criticized, commented on, and dismissed him in recent days. “I thank them for their kind words,” he initially said, addressing the prime minister who had stated “I don’t think this book will find a place in my reading list.” The video also features excerpts from statements by Dimitris Koutsoumbas, Zoe Konstantopoulou, and Yanis Varoufakis. The video ends with Alexis Tsipras’s invitation to the book presentation for those who want to hear his responses to the criticism directed at him, on December 3.
Androulakis and Konstantopoulou fire criticism at Tsipras over “Ithaca”
Meanwhile, the confrontation with PASOK continues over excerpts that Alexis Tsipras mentions in “Ithaca” regarding potential cooperation with PASOK in the second 2015 elections. Nikos Androulakis, referring to the issue, emphasized: “He has been contradicted in life by the late Fofi Gennimata and PASOK with an official press office announcement. Are these things serious and ethical? To insist on a lie. What does he want to say? That Kammenos was not his choice? But from the first moment he was embracing Kammenos at Zappeio.” At the same time, Zoe Konstantopoulou continues her attack on the former prime minister saying: “A former prime minister is now going to make money, and substantial money at that, from his fabricated testimony about historical events he is trying to distort.”
