The day after the announcement of the new political entity ELAS by Alexis Tsipras found the Amalia headquarters staff particularly satisfied with both the Thiseio event organization and the name choice. Monitoring the response – both positive and negative – that the ELAS name received on social media, they said the name was particularly successful.
“Since yesterday we started a struggle towards society. We are starting and asking citizens to enter the myelas platform, to sign our founding declaration, so they can feel part of this new effort. Our name I think is very clear and specific regarding our identity. I am very happy and proud of this identity,” stated party deputy spokesperson Anna Papadopoulou.
Alexis Tsipras: What follows after ELAS presentation
In the coming period, Alexis Tsipras will attempt to communicate the programmatic positions of the Greek Left Alliance. Both the former prime minister himself and the Greek Left Alliance press representatives are expected to be daily on the front line of information. On Wednesday, Amalia announced that Theoni Koufonikolakou will be the party’s press spokesperson, while Kostas Karpouchtsis, Giorgos Balatsoukas, Nikos Nyfoudis and Anna Papadopoulou took on roles as deputy press spokespersons. Naturally, Alexis Tsipras’s associates are focusing their weight on the polls that will see the light of publicity in the coming time period, as for many this is ELAS’s big bet.
Meanwhile, anxiety peaks in SYRIZA about how the Koumoundourou party will move. Everyone awaits the Political Secretariat meeting scheduled for next Wednesday and the Central Committee. As reported, everything will be decided after the party’s Central Committee, which will decide how SYRIZA will move in the coming period and ahead of elections, while information suggests the first departures will begin. Pavlos Polakis declared on Wednesday in Parliament that, despite his expulsion, he remains SYRIZA: “I am not independent. I was and am and from today SYRIZA”.
At the same time, Rena Dourou appears to have decided to claim party leadership with demands if the issue arises. On Wednesday in her intervention she addressed those who continue to favor the party’s self-dissolution: “Enough excuses from elected members of the Greek parliament who seek to stand on two boats, that is, to belong to SYRIZA P.S. for their seat while simultaneously supporting dissolution”.
Christos Giannoulis, more unifying, told MEGA that “we will meet again when everything has passed, I believe we will meet again. The best would be to participate in a large progressive alliance”. Grigoris Theodorakis on ERT, defining the line on which Greek Left Alliance members will move in the coming period, stated that “obviously we want to govern, certainly we want to be the first party. For us the only opponent is New Democracy”.
Gabriel Sakellaridis’s comment
Gabriel Sakellaridis commented sarcastically on the new party: “The right turn signal won’t be long, that is when it’s considered that the left space has been politically exploited, then there will be a turn towards more centrist or right-wing audiences”. In New Left everything indicates that the party’s parliamentary group will exist for a little longer, as the “Charitsis group” is now very close to departure. Information suggests there will be a text signed by departing members stating the reasons they made this decision.
