A. Tsipras, ‘violent de-ligation’ and privatization in auxiliary insurance

By Niki Zorba

She is going through the last weeks before SYRIZA held its (multi-talented) conference and Alexis Tsipras is thickening appearances, messages, program positions, invitations but also drawing dividing lines with the ruling party.

He now opposes the opinion polls that do not consider the formation of a “progressive government” possible since KINAL refuses to enter this debate and is reconstituted in terms of “political autonomy” but at the same time, Mr. Tsipras refuses to feed SYRIZA introversion, the existing disagreements within the party (mainly with the internal opposition – Umbrella).

Given all this, in addition to the “march to the people” of the president of SYRIZA with constant tours in urban centers and rural areas and his contacts with productive bodies, Mr. Tsipras “packs” with his public interventions and the whole programmatic “position” of SYRIZA .

This includes the interview given to Sunday’s BIMA by the leader of the official opposition, who first, as usual, attacked the scientist Kyriakos Mitsotakis in order to conclude that there is no field for SYRIZA to show consent to the Government. .

The issue of “consensus” to the ND, moreover, “burned” after the fires of summer, theoretically and practically, at the twilight of 2021, when during the debate on the budget in Parliament, elections were requested, a request that his party reiterates with undiminished intensity. on a daily basis.

Depoliticization and auxiliary insurance

In order to manage the energy crisis, SYRIZA “shoots” the government with the basic accusation that its only concern is to ensure the profits of the powerful. The same for which he blames her, after all, from all fields of the economy.

What would SYRIZA do differently? “Redesign the national strategy,” he says, by reopening depleted lignite fields to supply existing units.

“We will also restore PPC ‘s’ D’, that is, its public and public benefit role. In a nutshell, we will not compromise on profiteering. “A knife can be cut, with a profit margin, market regulation, reinforcement of time limits and strict controls.”

He admits, however, that there is a risk of fiscal derailment to which the president of SYRIZA responds that there is a way to support society without jeopardizing the country’s fiscal course.

“It is to a large extent a matter of priorities. We, for example, will cancel the privatization of the auxiliary insurance and 1.5 billion a year will go to those in need, not to the black hole of the funds. The super profits of the generators will also return to the consumer. “This does not require budgetary costs but political will to conflict with interests.”

KINAL and programmatic convergence

Faithful to the strategy he has devised for SYRIZA that “our opponent is the ND not KINAL”, without directly attacking its neighboring party (there is also the narrative of the progressive government, after all), Mr. Tsipras insists on the dilemma that had even set before Mr. Androulakis was elected president, describing the axes of a programmatic convergence:

“The field of convergence, as you call it, is for us the needs of society. The basic salary, labor relations, support for small and medium-sized enterprises, the decisive strengthening of the welfare state and the rule of law, the sound and transparent management of money “, without missing the careful tips for his leadership:

“The path of silence and equal distances, especially as time goes on, is not a guarantee of neutrality, but an alibi for a government that leads the social majority in conditions of unprecedented insecurity.”