SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras both came under fire from Nikos Karanikas in his television statements. Speaking specifically on SKAI, he said that the former governing party has reached absolute defeat. He emphasized: “Such decline and decay is not something that spreads through breath, it’s a harsh process of defeat and acceptance of the dominant power.” Furthermore, he claimed that “SYRIZA has been absorbed by Neoliberalism, they don’t care about creating any emotion in society, their interest revolves around themselves and their restoration, they have realized they have no future. Besides, after the coup in the bouzouki hall, SYRIZA’s people have abandoned them and are distancing themselves.”
Nikos Karanikas: “Two harlequin texts, so we can love each other”
Referring to Famellos’s proposal for convergence with the Greek Left Coalition, which was approved on Saturday, June 6, Nikos Karanikas said “as a decision, it will be given to specialists to interpret what it means to have a party but support another party’s initiative, a decision they support with audacity and not with consistency because there is no electoral program, there are two harlequin texts so we can all love each other: The manifesto which is more ridiculous and the declaration which has elements but no confrontation with neoliberalism.”
After estimating that “SYRIZA has decided to dissolve itself,” when asked if there is communication between Tsipras and Famellos, he answered “when there is desperation and deadlock, they come up with things on their own. Who wants them? You are a democratic or feudal party like Tsipras’s, why would you want a collectivity that behaves like this. I don’t believe Tsipras will take them, they are unreliable, unethical and they know how to stage coups. Tsipras was of course their flag-bearer, and perhaps that’s why they want to go there.”
“I have never seen such decay in a party” insisted the former strategic advisor to the SYRIZA government, adding that “my words are not harsh, but what they do is harsh. It’s harsh that they crawl in the corridors of power.”
Specifically about Alexis Tsipras he commented that “initially he started rebranding toward the center but presenting Ithaca he saw that it flopped, he turned it into a reunion and that’s why he will take SYRIZA. Whether he will take the kneeling officials we will see. Don’t think that Tsipras is the solution, he hit his ceiling in second place, he’s fighting to be second.” Nikos Karanikas was generally caustic about the opposition saying “it considers itself so capable of winning and that’s why it doesn’t cooperate. We see that Mitsotakis leads, the others don’t want to cooperate and the second place is 10 points or more behind the first, why should we choose them? I prefer to vote for Kasselakis or Karystianou who are not involved in this degeneration and deadlock rather than the deadlocked parties. People are arrogant and conceited, they get 10 and 15% and act as if they have 40 and will ride over us.”
