Autumn ballot box strategy by SYRIZA

By Niki Zorba

Everything shows elections, and in fact in early autumn, says Koumoundourou and is thrown into a full opposition battle. Alexis Tsipras continues touring in cities – “key” for SYRIZA and not only, with high parallel semantic value. The other day he toured Symi and Rhodes, mediating the outrageous Turkish provocation.

Elections

The assessment that Alexis Tsipras reiterates with certainty in all his public statements now is that Kyriakos Mitsotakis will go to the polls early, although he does the opposite, very early in the fall, under the weight of accuracy and the upcoming economic and social impasses.

Oper means that, if these assessments succeed, Koumoundourou has only about three months to use the “general counterattack” acquired by SYRIZA after the completion of its congressional and internal party procedures. Especially after the arrangements of Alexis Tsipras to his interior: Finally the factions, the tendencies, the flags of every party “prima donna” in SYRIZA, finally the divisions and the balances between majority and minority, between “presidential” and “Umbrella”.

The step for the transformation of SYRIZA into a governing party was slow, but it was done, and Alexis Tsipras, apart from the “other, new SYRIZA” in practices and internal party address, is also in the direction of “collected” promises to the citizens in the (short how he sees it) road to the polls.

In short, the president of SYRIZA is constantly struggling with the financial difficulties that lie ahead, he avoids raising the bar of expectations, he constantly warns about the limited possibilities that he will have in case he is called to govern, attributing their “gnawing” to politics exercised by the government, but with the essence remaining the same: Do not expect miracles, we will receive scorched earth.

Economy

Polls have stopped being commented on by SYRIZA – however, the party’s belligerent rhetoric against them has ceased. On the contrary, the official opposition party’s bet remains open – and it has not won so far:

The identification of accuracy with the Mitsotakis government due to its choices in parallel with the neutralization of the argument “do not let them come to power again and crush us in taxes again”. The de-dramatization, that is, in the eyes of the middle class of any return of SYRIZA to the governance of the country.

Regarding the first part of the bet, the identification in the consciousness of the citizens of the “troubles” of society (pandemic, to be precise) with the government, in Koumoundourou there is a firm belief that on the one hand it is due to the “communication imperium” of the government and on the other in its systematic argument that all the crises we face are “imported”.

They estimate, however, that in this area, too, the government will begin to accelerate its deterioration. Especially since everyday life is becoming more and more stressful for the citizens.

The crucial thing for SYRIZA, of course, is, in the period remaining until the elections, to be able to convince that it “learned from its mistakes”, especially in the part “burden of the middle class”. From the extent to which he succeeds or not in achieving this goal, that is, in appearing as a “convincing government solution” against the ruling party, his electoral performance and the difference from the N.D. will be judged to a large extent.

Alexis Tsipras, however, makes openings in the middle class, with confessions about how much his government was burdened by a memorandum vise, but – demographically at least – the handshake with this large part of society is not warm enough.

Alliances

As for the part of its alliances for the formation of a “progressive government”, SYRIZA will continue the pressure on PASOK / KINAL and Nikos Androulakis to “open its papers”. This in practice translates into a regular “whip-carrot”, which follows from December until today, with the last whipping of the … whip, as Alexis Tsipras for two months now, although he states that “his opponent is Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the Right “, pounding Nikos Androulakis and his party on a regular basis.

There is, after all, the general assessment in Koumoundourou that, as the time for announcing the elections approaches and the polarization between the two big ones, ND-SYRIZA, grows, the percentages of the third party will be compressed.

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