While most SYRIZA officials are advising calm and sobriety among their comrades to defuse the tense climate created by Alexis Tsipras’ decision to ostracize his former comrades at the Pallas theater balcony during the presentation of “Ithaca,” while simultaneously criticizing them harshly, Sunday’s leak from Amalias street threatens to further inflame tensions, as it references a “priesthood.”
Specifically, the leak stated: “And yet it moves! With Galileo’s famous phrase, when the priesthood threatened to burn him at the stake for speaking the truth, those at Amalias comment on the reactions and the activity that Ithaca and Tsipras’ intervention at Pallas provoked and continues to provoke.”
Tsipras: How SYRIZA officials comment on the Galileo comparison
This comparison has particularly annoyed several SYRIZA officials, who believe that Tsipras’ side, instead of lowering the tone, is doing everything possible to widen the rift between the two sides, even adopting Kasselakis-style tactics. Some argue that Alexis Tsipras’ staff behavior has also annoyed leftist voters, who, logically speaking, would be the base the former prime minister would rely on for his next moves.
Meanwhile, those at Amalias insist they will not “imprison” the discussion that opened in skirmishes or leadership confrontations under any circumstances. For Alexis Tsipras, the issue is not about party leaderships. Nor does he intend or wish to devalue, admonish, or impose his views on them. He declares himself loudly absent from leadership processes and actively present in the difficult effort to mobilize leftist and progressive people, whether they belong to specific party formations or have turned their backs on them.
At the same time, Yannis Ragousis appears to state that “under current circumstances, there is not the slightest possibility of a unified progressive ballot in the next national elections.” On a different wavelength, Panos Rigas on ACTION 24 mentioned that “it’s true that a unified ballot of progressive forces is needed,” while Alexis Charitsis on “Demokratiki Rodou” continued the criticism: “When everyone is presented as ‘inadequate’ without distinction, the real problem is ultimately absolved, which is the Right in power.”
