Alexis Tsipras and a motion of censure: Is the government the target, KINAL or SYRIZA?

By Niki Zorba

Alexis Tsipras testified yesterday motion of censure against the Government , with a military intervention in Parliament, surprising friends and “enemies”. That was his goal, after all. Mainly the “friends”. It is also reported that the president of SYRIZA surprised his party on purpose, as his close associates confirmed that he knew of his decision only by a handful of people. Fewer, to be precise: Just three.

For the second time in ten days, the president of SYRIZA announces to his party decisions of his own, without any consultation. None is a product of “collective processing”.

The interior of SYRIZA is not exactly boiling, but top executives of the internal minority do not feel very well with the decisions of the president for the election of a president and a central committee by the members. Panos Skourletis has already recently spoken of “superficial” democratic changes.

At a time when dissidents were beginning to find their “footprints” on how to react to the president’s decisions, Alexis Tsipras pulled another “weapon” from the quiver that dictates rallying in the party: The motion of censure on the government.

Commonly, now we are running to strike the government dizzy from the blow of “hope”, we have no room for internal existential quests.

One the prisoner.

The KINAL factor and the “Papadimou script”

Koumoundourou “takes an oath” that in her decisions, the new developments in KINAL and the polling forum given to the neighboring party by the election of Nikos Androulakis as president, are not a variable in her political equations.

The polls, although they face them with an eyebrow raised, do not leave them indifferent otherwise how it would be done, as in general, they reflect a trend: The fixation of SYRIZA and the ascending course of KINAL.

It is a strategic choice not to be hostile to their neighbor in the center-left apartment building, but they are watching him closely and lurking for missteps.

Regarding the motion of censure, it is obvious that Mr. Tsipras has included in his calculations as an opportunity for himself that Nikos Androulakis will not be able to give the “battle of Parliament”. He will be absent from the facts, since he may be the president of KINAL, but he is not an MP. Therefore, a field of glory bright for the president of SYRIZA, to show on the field, who is the “boss” in the opposition.

However, the clashes between SYRIZA and KINAL are not avoided. And it is only a matter of time before the battles between them intensify.

Yesterday for example, when the Nikos Androulakis in an interview explained that he would vote in favor of the motion of censure against the Government but considers the elections in the midst of a pandemic unthinkable, Nassos Iliopoulos reacted, wondering grosso modo how it is possible to vote against the government and not want to leave.

One of the top executives of SYRIZA, however, speaking to Capital.gr, wondered: “What does Mr. Androulakis mean when he says that he does not want this government but does not want elections either? Are there deviant scenarios like the one of Papademos’s time?”.

… And the “eight”

Beyond that, SYRIZA focuses on the big picture: The battle with K. Mitsotakis and his Government.

There are many reasons why, according to Koumoundourou, the only way was to file a motion of censure against the government:

1. From the moment the “genie” of the election request came out of the bottle, it was a matter of time and the submission of a motion of censure. The absolute, that is, escalation.

2. With the fiasco of “hope”, the prime minister will have to suddenly defend the choices of individuals and the overall adequacy of the government, at a time when the citizens are already angry. In the same reading, they add the fact that the reluctant ministers and deputies will be forced to support the Government (many did not appear to dry it up in the last few days), to do so.

3. The Prime Minister will appear apologetic and isolated in parliament, in a situation of “rapid deterioration” for his government, which has failed to manage all the critical fronts.

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-Ν. Iliopoulos: The government must leave and we will fight