PASOK issued a sharp statement on Tuesday evening (26/5) regarding the unveiling of Alexis Tsipras’ new party, named “Greek Left Alliance“. “The unveiling of Tsipras’ private party with the name ELAS has certified how old what has been advertised for months as ‘new’ really is,” states the announcement issued by the party’s press office.
PASOK on Tsipras’ new party: once he came embracing populism and its delusions, today he comes embracing interests and corruption
The statement questions with what credibility Mr. Tsipras will regulate “red” loans “who brought the funds despite promising debt relief.” “The one who preferred not to tax shipowners but to cut pensions as J.C. Juncker recently said and bled the middle class, scientists, and freelancers through taxation, with what credibility will he inspire that this time he means fair taxation?” it comments. In the same spirit it asks: “The one who sealed twice the 41% of New Democracy and suffered the greatest defeat of an official opposition party in the post-dictatorship era, how will he make political change happen?”
PASOK states that “Mr. Tsipras once came embracing populism and its delusions, today he comes embracing interests and corruption.”
Regarding his aversion to party debts, the main opposition party notes: “let him know that PASOK has proceeded to settle all its debts to banks under the presidency of the late Fofi Gennimata and Nikos Androulakis.” In the same context it comments: “Why doesn’t Mr. Tsipras say a word about the bankrupt party media and the laid-off workers he left behind? Why doesn’t he respond to his successor in SYRIZA, who denounces that he found ‘black funds’? Why doesn’t he disclose how he finances a party with expensive communication campaigns and a nationwide network?”
Finally, PASOK presents what it calls “something crucial,” specifically an excerpt from Giorgos Siakanaris’ statement in TA NEA newspaper, “not too long ago, just in 2024”: “Can the man who in 2015 put the worst form of far-right at the time in government become the leader of an effort to defeat the center-right and far-right? People change, but their history follows them. That doesn’t change.”
