A full-frontal attack against the government is expected to be launched at the Economist conference at Vellidio by Alexis Tsipras, highlighting all the government’s economic mistakes with concrete data and numbers. The event is expected to attract many figures from the broader left, SYRIZA MPs, and people seeking to align themselves with Tsipras’s party. The former prime minister will address the current economic situation and overall developments in the country, while unveiling his vision for Greece in 2030.
What Alexis Tsipras’s speech at the Economist conference will include
In his speech, he will present a series of data documenting Greece’s divergence from European indicators both economically and institutionally. “In our homeland, both democracy and justice are being tested today. Because through its visible policies and ‘invisible’ practices, the government is building a society that can reasonably, and based on official data and measurements, be characterized as a society of gaps,” the former prime minister is expected to state.
He will highlight as the main characteristic of today’s politics the bias in favor of wealth, leading to a society of gaps and social inequalities. He will characterize some of the Mitsotakis government’s “achievements” as “shame indicators.” At the same time, he is expected to outline the basic axes of a National Recovery Plan aimed at ensuring the country doesn’t definitively miss the convergence train and find itself again in conditions of existential crisis. Alexis Tsipras is expected to emphasize that “we need a new patriotism. With characteristics that will provide answers to the challenges and dangers of our time. A new patriotism, against oligarchy and kleptocracy, so that on one side is our homeland, on the other their wealth. This is the modern dividing line against policies and practices that exacerbate inequalities and injustice.”
Alexis Tsipras: The “National Recovery Plan” and reference to a new “national compass”
He will argue that the current situation cannot be addressed with pre-election handouts and announcements but requires a change in economic and production model, as well as a major development shock. According to sources, he will refer extensively to the axes of the National Recovery Plan he proposes. Among other things, they will concern changes in the state, production, labor support, creation of a framework for resilience and energy security, while particular emphasis is expected to be given to demographics, which he will characterize as “the problem of problems.”
Finally, he is expected to emphasize that for such fundamental change we need a new national compass. “And it is necessary for all productive social classes to participate in this effort,” he is expected to state.
