Finally, what is SYRIZA looking for in the pandemic? – Again all around from … Polakis

By Niki Zorba

It has not been long since Alexis Tsipras argued: There should be a minimum of conciliation so that “difficult measures” can be taken. Let us in SYRIZA also bear the political cost.

Where “difficult measures” (it has been explained in detail what the president of SYRTIZA meant): Even compulsory vaccinations, whatever is needed in any case to stop the galloping pandemic. Of course, Tsipras’s proposal had conditions in order for him to “turn his back” while his party also undertakes the political cost of these “difficult measures”: To admit that the government did it by managing the pandemic.

Did he know that there was no way he could actually extract such a confession? Of course yes. His political narrative “built” around this grand guinea pig health condition that two years ago has plunged society and the economy into a horror carousel.

The more the government seemed to move away from the possibility of taking anti-popular measures, the more SYRIZA came forward with bold leaks and proposals: Extension of compulsory vaccination to other professional categories, definitely to the Security Forces and the Armed Forces for the increase of the Armed Forces. detection tests own outputs, tests and in vaccinated. Sometimes, in SYRIZA, they “spread” the discussion about harsh measures, “turning a blind eye” to the “serious”, moderate people of the Center who were dissatisfied with the defensive attitude of the Government towards the unvaccinated under the general accusation: They have raised their hands high for the Pandemic, control has been lost and they are watching in vain as the dead rise and the NSS collapses.

The feeling was given in the Syriza hinterland (of the representatives of the minority – Umbrella) that SYRIZA was no longer confused with views that had been expressed in a former political council of the party by the “presidential” that “the vaccinators also have a vote”.

Game changer the polls and the fine

In the meantime, the polling station for SYRIZA remained “empty”. The government has undoubtedly suffered damage, according to opinion polls at least, but on the one hand the official opposition did not capitalize on any of its damage, on the other hand the dispute with the government remained fierce. Either one “chooses” to stand on the polls that give the ND-SYRIZA difference a little below double digits, or a little above. The result produces the same political conclusions.

SYRIZA has not managed to find a way to disrupt the anti-SYRIZA front (although it is not as strong as two years ago) and does not gel as an alternative pole of power in society. To this mix is ​​added the “anxiety” of possible elections in the coming months (the countdown has been set by the SYRIZA leadership in the Spring).

There were many who “saw” the lockdown coming, despite the categorical denials of the Prime Minister and government officials.

The climate changed and SYRIZA became “furious” by changing its “line”, after the announcement for mandatory vaccination of over 60 on a fine.

Theoretically, as Alexis Tsipras argued yesterday in a parliamentary debate with the Prime Minister, the strong reaction of SYRIZA and the vote against this amendment is due to “financial blackmail of the weak financially unvaccinated elderly” and the possibility of those who have 100 euros monthly and are not persuaded to be vaccinated, to “redeem” their non-vaccination.

“What you are doing is not even mandatory,” said Alexis Tsipras. That is? would he agree to universal compulsory vaccination, as publicly suggested by his advisor to the Sorbonne professor of hematology, Grigoris Gerotziafas?

No. He was pressured by Kyriakos Mitsotakis to answer if he agrees with his advisor’s proposal, and even with difficulty, he distanced himself. SYRIZA does not consent to universal compulsory vaccination.

In conclusion, yesterday’s speeches by Alexis Tsipras in Parliament and the interview he gave tonight in view of tonight’s speech in Kozani, show that he probably strayed from the line of “difficult” measures and was limited to the most digestible: Support for private NSS, beds, measures for schools.

And suddenly … Polakis

The possibility of any consensus, the “minimum” to which Alexis Tsipras refers, the wide one proposed more “pressively” by Andreas Xanthos, who has repeatedly spoken publicly about the need to convene a council of political leaders, has hit the reef once again.

Pavlos Polakis took a stand with his well-known tones and style, Kyriakos Mitsotakis took the opportunity, Alexis Tsipras did not intervene to “pick up” his MP and somehow the public debate returned to where he was in the autumn, when the SYRIZA president announced that his absurd MP was vaccinated, trying to close the discussion that SYRIZA is fishing in the waters of the anti-vaccinators.

The Cretan MP appeared as justified (with his well-known obsession with monoclons), giving as usual the best passes to be utilized to his party’s political opponents.

Koumoudourou, however, “read” the prime minister’s reaction as an attempt to defend herself through the attack. The effect on the official opposition, after all, is that the government changes its attitude and positions every ten days and what it exorcised one day, appears to beautify it the next, causing a “crisis of confidence”.