SYRIZA: For Alexis Tsipras the bar is … 2 million voters

By Niki Zorba

Our target is the 2 million voters in the national elections. This is what Alexis Tsipras said during his tour in Crete, shortly before the polls of the internal party process in SYRIZA open, with which he is re-elected but the new Central Committee is elected through its members.

Estimates, speculations, attendance bets and in the middle, the recent internal party process in KINAL, for which there are more smiles in Charilaou Trikoupi with the more than 180,000 who went to the ballot box for the baptisms of KINAL to which is added “PASOK” with its symbols.

Returning to Koumoundourou, the SYRIZA leadership on the one hand clearly avoids referring to numbers and on the other hand does not seem to be worried about the impressions that will emerge from comparisons. They believe that although the party currently has a little over 60,000 members, the fact that next Sunday it has the right to go to the polls and vote for the re-election of Alexis Tsipras, even if it registers as a member at that time, will give a big impetus to the process. and yet, any surprises will be positive.

Are they worried about “sabotage” at the ballot box for the election of a president by “bitter” Umbrella executives, by choosing “white”? Funny things, say competent sources, according to which there is no intention such centrally from the Umbrella nor do they have this possibility, among so many thousands of ballots. And the leaders of the internal minority, however, deny that there is such a plan. Not coordinated at least, although they acknowledge that they completely disagree with Alexis Tsipras on this.

The “bill”, the polarization and the “scorched earth”

“On May 15, we send them the bill” is SYRIZA’s dominant motto for the internal party process, with its own president giving Sunday ‘s vote the character of national elections.

“The participation and strengthening of a party gives a dynamic victory for the national elections that will not be long. I have the feeling that even the most skeptics understand that this government can not take four years,” the SYRIZA president said in an interview. (Zarpa Radio), to confirm that the bet on participating in the ballot box is crucial for him and his party.

The tactics have side effects: the polarization is harsh and the rhetoric against the government even harsher. From the “canvas” of the accusations, there are reports of thieves, innocence, analgesia, blue golden boys and in general an image of “rot” that SYRIZA is trying to create towards the N.D.

At the same time, however, Mr. Tsipras has been systematically cultivating in his public speech the doctrine of the “scorched earth”: Things are difficult, I can promise one thing that we will not steal, (again) he said yesterday, from Crete.