A. Tsipras just before the polls SYRIZA: What has today’s KINAL got to do with A. Papandreou?

By Niki Zorba

In the remaining 48 hours until SYRIZA’s internal party ballots – where the official opposition and especially its leader will count if it “came out” and whether his personal bet on the transformation of the party and the alignment of its voters with the party members, Alexis Tsipras carries out a barrage of tours and interventions.

His public speech is constant: Daily interviews and interventions aimed mainly at to increase turnout at her (re) electionHowever, while he is clearly opposed to the government (accuracy, National, etc.) he is revealing (and sometimes a pharmacist) towards PASOK-KINAL and Nikos Androulakis, although he always ends his comment with the ..remember that he considers N .D and not the party of the adjacent space.

Papandreou and his … spokesman

However, he openly tries to guard the SYRIZA space as the one that constitutes the big party, the backbone of the democratic faction, with successive remarks: Flirting with the “greatness” of the leading figure of Andreas Papandreou (although he declares himself a leftist and not a socialist) showing itself expressive in a sense – more so than his political children in Charilaou Trikoupi.

“What has today’s KINAL got to do with Andreas Papandreou?” He asked last night (KONTRA interview) rhetorically and very sharply. In the same interview, he had already described the founder of PASOK as a “great leader of unquestionable prestige” who managed to express the EAM Movement with principles and demands that are “relevant today”. He ended his “velvet” attack on PASOK-KINAL and its president, commenting that he voted in favor of the Greek-American agreement that “gives everything to the US and gets nothing”, implying that A. Papandreou had no chance to support it.

Pressure on N. Androulaki

For the record, he gave up the choice of his place to send Papandreou to the special Court. (This is not the first time that the “dirty 89” file is opened in SYRIZA. A relevant discussion had taken place within a party at a meeting of the Central Committee for the Reconstruction of the Pandemic ).

“I was 12 years old when Andreas was sent to the special court. The Left then made a regular maneuver that did not benefit either itself or the popular movement,” he said, adding to PASOK-KINAL that the case leaves him a lesson: The democratic faction must have an opponent: the right.

The cycle of references to the Social Democratic Party and its new leader ended similarly with peaks: “It is not normal for Androulakis to tell us that he does not want one for prime minister , does not want the other but not to tell us who he wants. “He must open his papers before the elections.”

It is recalled in the meantime that just two days ago, Alexis Tsipras had mocked Nikos Androulakis (whom SYRIZA does not see as an opponent) saying on the occasion of the return of the green sun to the name and symbols of the party, that: “PASOK was called PASOK and the green sun had an emblem when a “Politics co-governed with New Democracy over Mr. Venizelos and Mr. Androulakis, who was the party secretary, and went to 4.6% in 2015.”

Returning to the purely Syriza house, In view of Sunday’s ballot, Mr. Tsipras will continue the barrage of tours (currently visiting Arta-Agrinio) and public interventions-interviews with the aim of increasing participation in the internal party process.

His most “fresh” motto is: The 1,000 ballot boxes set up for the SYRIZA elections will be 1,000 mails where letters will be sent requesting “political change”.