A call to resistance, because “the swamp and apathy suits them,” will be delivered today from Patras by Alexis Tsipras, where he will present his book “Ithaca.” In his speech, the former prime minister is expected to present his manifesto against the government’s economic policy, while launching a full-scale attack on corruption scandals.
“Ithaca is not a book that only narrates yesterday’s adventures. Ours and our homeland’s. It also contains lessons for tomorrow, drawn from yesterday’s practice: our victories and defeats, our delusions and mistakes, our anxieties and struggles. In the agonizing effort to free Greece from trusteeship, the state of siege, the memoranda,” Alexis Tsipras will say.
He will refer to the criticism he received for his book, saying that “the wave of warfare, hostility, and slander against the book we discuss today didn’t rise only because it demolishes their myths about the past. But also because, mainly I would say, it worries and frightens them about tomorrow’s journey. Stagnation, apathy, the swamp suits them. To paraphrase a well-known phrase: The specter of Ithaca haunts their regime.”
Tsipras’ message to Mitsotakis on OPEKEPE: “He has turned the country into a vast swamp”
Alexis Tsipras is expected to refer to the years of his governance while criticizing how he handled the country’s finances, and will accuse the Mitsotakis government over the OPEKEPE scandal, saying it has turned the country into a vast swamp.
“We respected every last euro from our people’s sacrifices. We elevated honesty as a governance principle. We resisted the hidden, or even open, attraction of public coffers. While those fed by private colleges proved insatiable. They have turned the country into a vast swamp of corruption. The swamp of wiretapping. The swamp of Tempe and cover-ups. The swamp of OPEKEPE,” Alexis Tsipras will note.
At the same time, he will emphasize that “it is therefore urgent today that there be a confidence shock. A major change in moral standards and political correlations. To prevent the worst. To change the country’s course. And to lead it step-by-step, safely and with the support of the social majority, on paths of honesty and justice. And this means a radical, seismic I would say, change in political correlations, in favor of progressive forces. It means democratic rejuvenation of institutions and Justice…
So that the immunity of great wealth ends. Of super-profits and dividends. And to establish a patriotic contribution, a special tax, that will be invested in the new generation.”
At today’s presentation of Alexis Tsipras’ book, speakers will include Vassilis Aivalis, head of Patras Municipality faction and former President of Western Greece Technical Chamber, Theoni Koufonikοlakou, Child’s Advocate and Supreme Court Attorney, Giorgos Pappas, president of the Economic Chamber of Northwestern Peloponnese and Western Greece, Giorgos Siakantaris, Author and PhD in Sociology, and Emilius Cheilakis, actor. The event will be coordinated by journalist Lina Basta, News Director of Ionian TV.
