How is A. Tsipras proceeding with the liquidations in SYRIZA

Her Nikis Zorba

Whatever changes Alexis Tsipras did not make in SYRIZA during the three years he has been in the official opposition, he implemented them in less than seven days.

The “other” SYRIZA

They do not manage to gather its executives from the shocking shocks, no matter what internal party faction they come from. “Primantones” of all tribes, from the right and left of the president, heard in a “live” broadcast the president of the party saying to them: Old SYRIZA is over and the new, the other SYRIZA “I am”.

Therefore, none of those who created either a behind-the-scenes or a public problem for Mr. Tsipras should sleep soundly at night, from now on. In general, there has been a lot of insomnia in Koumoundourou, if one takes for granted the recent statement of the president that he does not sleep at night because he is worried about the chaos he will receive from the government.

In the meantime, however, the leader of the official opposition has left no room for doubt about how the “other SYRIZA” is formed, of 172,000 members, of which 110,000 were registered on the day of the internal party elections, literally above the ballot box for the election of the president: decisions for the party is his sole prerogative.

Reshuffle

Rejecting strong pressure from the presidents, he chose Rania Svigkou as the new secretary. Rejecting other pressures from Umbrella, he left out of Tassi the new “director” (official name “Executive Office”). Especially for this Body, in addition to the statutory “restrictions” that provide for the ex officio participation of executives with an institutional role (Secretaries, Spokesperson and secretary of the K.O.), he chose for his staff E. Ahtsioglou, R. Douros and Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou. The informal management is largely a female affair (Rania Svigkou and Olga Gerovasilis are already involved), with him emphasizing that with this increased female representation he will proceed when and if he is called to govern.

For the next day of SYRIZA he said many other things: To forget rewards as self-evident with thugs and ministries those who held high shares in the internal “stock market” appearing either as “presidential” and “instead” but also those who enjoyed high internal popularity for the exact opposite: as “anti-tsipres”.

He separated a member, however, naming him (the only one after all): Euclid Tsakalotos. The proposal of Umbrella executives to participate in the “executive office” was not accepted, but he explained – quite explicitly of his intentions – in the interview he gave on Thursday (Newsbomb) that “he is a useful collaborator” and a parliamentary representative.

A statement that in a way claimed that the informal head of Umbrella would remain the parliamentary representative of SYRIZA even after the new changes that Mr. Tsipras is preparing to announce. The latest, according to converging information, from valid sources.

Oper means that the reshuffle in the heads of sectors is not in the plans of the president of SYRIZA, but the reshuffle in the parliamentary representatives is just around the corner. The relevant announcements of A. Tsipras are expected from Monday onwards.

The current parliamentary representatives are: Ef. Tsakalotos, P. Skourletis and G. Ragousis. The same information wants Alexis Tsipras to wish to give to the until recently secretary of SYRIZA Dimitris Tzanakopoulos, one of the three positions of parliamentary representative, as one of the closest and most combative associates he has. Given that the “signal” sent by Mr. Tsipras publicly is that the former Minister of Finance will remain in his post, the candidates to leave are P. Skourletis (Umbrella) and the late G. Ragousis.

Understandably, the most “weak” link between the two is P. Skourletis, with whom the president of SYRIZA had an “episodic” relationship in recent years and certainly not close cooperation from the moment he left as secretary of SYRIZA.

Otherwise, as soon as the internal party changes are completed, SYRIZA is preparing to return to its opposition program, as the time until the elections – which they place in the fall – is too little for a party that has just settled its internal affairs and is trying to “re-introduced” to the Citizens in general and the “middle class” in particular.

From the current Chapter that is circulating