SYRIZA: Tensions to ease – Tsipras reports in Xanthos – The background of KO

By Niki Zorba

For budget Parliament met yesterday SYRIZA team, through a video conference and not live. Therefore, the environment in the absence of “proximity” of the deputies was somewhat sterile but probably not due to the fact that efforts were made to relax the borderline climate in the intra-party field.

Tensions and eating that prevailed last week, in the beginning with A. Xanthos and the ICU for vip and then with him N. Fili, who deconstructed SYRIZA’s opposition strategy, blaming his party for a televised opposition with the dead.

In yesterday meeting under Alexis Tsipras, the spirits were calm from the beginning. The president of SYRIZA himself, during his presentation, avoided any reference to internal party issues and limited himself to a detailed political and economic presentation on how the party will pound the Government during the discussion of the budget that starts today at 6pm.

The positions of the department heads were also detailedn, each for the sake of his portfolio, without reference to the recent – leniently – misplaced for the image of the official opposition, intra-party “conflict”. One of the many anyway, as despite the explanations and mitigation efforts that are made from time to time, the intra-Syrian conflicts are a recurring pattern in SYRIZA. At least until the conference.

“Cannibalism” and “cannibalism”

THE Euclid TsakalotosHowever, in his statement he spoke about phenomena of “cannibalism” in SYRIZA, on the occasion of course the attack that Andreas Xanthos received when he refused to adopt the complaints of POEDIN that there are ICUs … reserves for surnames.

In the same climate with Euclid Tsakalotos, in favor of Andreas Xanthos, were the positions of executives such as N. Voutsis, D. Vitsas, N. Filis and others.

A. Haritsis spoke about the need for everyone to “gather” and show self-control, stigmatizing cannibalism, even (… perhaps mainly) to small and medium-sized executives who engage in exchange of fire and fat in public on social networks. (They are the well-known “guards” who energize the climate).

Tryfonas Alexiadis (from the presidential bloc), commenting on the reports of executives’ behavior, limited himself to asking to be put to another meeting and not to the one that had a purely agenda of how the party would appear in the budget debate.

The call of Tsipras and the trust in Xanthos

And while in his presentation, Mr. Tsipras did not make the slightest reference to issues of an internal party nature, Closing the meeting, he did not comment.

In a calm and “unifying” tone, he called (once again) the deputies not to give handles for exploitation and tooling by their political opponent (the N.D.) and for everyone to stand up to the circumstances. during the debate in parliament on the budget.

In fact, sending messages to all internal party “bands”, he said that SYRIZA’s line for the pandemic is one, solid and is expressed by Andreas Xanthos, in whom he has absolute confidence.

Another internal party riot finally erupted yesterday. Until next time.