Alexis Tsipras now appears determined to break his silence and go on the offensive, defending himself over what happened in 2015, while attacking both New Democracy and Kyriakos Mitsotakis as well as representatives of the anti-SYRIZA front.
The response he gave yesterday to the prime minister regarding what Kyriakos Mitsotakis accused him of from the parliament floor shows that Alexis Tsipras is now dynamically entering the political game, regardless of when he has decided to proceed with creating his own party. Obviously, the former prime minister wishes to tell his own truth, as he believes that certain aspects of that era create negative associations among citizens.
Tsipras: What SYRIZA officials close to the former prime minister comment – References to Mitsotakis, PASOK and Plefsi Eleftherias
For this reason, he recently requested the release of the minutes from the Political Leaders’ Council meeting, where party leaders appear to support Alexis Tsipras’s move to use the referendum result as a negotiating card.
It should be noted that at Amalias street, morning coffee meetings with the former prime minister’s associates now take place daily, where all current issues are discussed and the strategy that Alexis Tsipras will follow is mapped out.
Information also suggests that the former prime minister wishes to create a team of special advisors who will represent the foundation and through which the new entity’s position will be communicated.
SYRIZA officials who are currently close to the former prime minister believe that the intensity with which Kyriakos Mitsotakis attacked Alexis Tsipras obviously shows fear of a possible return of the former prime minister at a time when society appears to be growing impatient with what is happening in political life, as well as with the economic situation that part of society finds itself in today. They also note the anxiety that exists in PASOK and Plefsi Eleftherias.
Yesterday, everything started when Alexis Tsipras’s institute issued an announcement referring to the events that the Alexis Tsipras Institute has organized during its first year of operation.
The announcement mentioned:
• Two International Conferences with leading personalities from Europe, the USA and Greece. Former and current Prime Ministers and Presidents, leading personalities from academia, scientists and activists discussed, analyzed and proposed.
• Important events on Economy and Justice.- Two substantial interventions on the balkanization of the country at economic, political and institutional levels.
• Twenty-one Thematic Units, more than one hundred coordinators and speakers.
• Two International Awards, the Prespa Peace Awards, to distinguished personalities of diplomacy and culture.
Tsipras to Mitsotakis: “After hubris comes nemesis”
From the parliament floor, the prime minister called on Alexis Tsipras to speak in Parliament about his new “rebranding,” as he characteristically said, especially regarding the request to publish the minutes of the Political Leaders’ Council the day after the referendum.
The former prime minister’s response was particularly harsh and shows that Alexis Tsipras has now decided to operate along these lines.
“After hubris comes nemesis,” the former prime minister replied. In his post, he assured Kyriakos Mitsotakis that he himself is certainly not stained to be asking to be cleansed. “Can he claim the same for himself?” Alexis Tsipras wondered about the prime minister.
“Today in Parliament we heard from the prime minister’s lips the shortest joke: that he is being fought by vested interests. This would all be very funny, if it weren’t tragicomic. Six years ago he took over a country outside the bankruptcy memoranda, with a 37 billion euro ‘cushion’ in public coffers, with its unsustainable debt regulated and its international credibility restored.
“And today, despite the torrent of European funds he managed, he managed to turn it once again into the black sheep of Europe. Which receives mockery even from Libya’s warlords, while its relationship with European institutions relates almost exclusively to the European prosecutor’s office. This catastrophic course for the country can no longer be hidden behind the myths he constructed about the past. Nor behind the hundreds of millions he distributed before the election to secure his electoral victory. After hubris comes nemesis. And one last thing: Anyone who is stained asks to be cleansed. I, however, am certainly not.”
“Can he claim the same for himself?” wrote Alexis Tsipras.
