SYRIZA sinks into introversion

Saturday, October 10, 2020, 00:02

Stavros Kontonis’ revelations about SYRIZA’s attitude towards Golden Dawn raised the carpet under which Alexis Tsipras hides the problems and the situation that has developed in his party after the three consecutive electoral losses of 2019. Introversion and disputes return to the vanguard at a time when the leadership team is in a state of panic, with an apparent inability to handle the new internal crisis of the party.

The voices for the lack of speeches and programmatic proposals are increasing with Alexis Tsipras trying to “retake” the case with Chrysi Avgi and attribute it to ND cooperative relations. Only in this case one of its top executives, the former Minister of Justice, opened Aeolus’ bag by pointing a finger at the top of SYRIZA, statements that come to add to the reports of a “laundering” operation carried out by the neo-Nazi organization. by the youth of the party themselves.

The video posted on his website by Alexis Tsipras confirms the panic that reigns at the party. In addition to the fact that he proceeded to a “non-elimination – elimination” of Stavros Kontonis, accusing him of “hostility towards the left and SYRIZA”. A phrase that recalls the accusations of “enemies of the party” invoked in the Stalinist period of the Soviet Union.

Tsipras Kontoni’s relations do not concern citizens at all. The former minister raised a question about the changes to the Penal Code, which was voted on two days before the closing of Parliament for the elections. And the focus may have been on the Golden Dawn trial, but it was also focused on other cases, such as developments in the Novartis conspiracy and the tragedies of the deadly Mati fire and Mandra floods.

The strong reaction, aside from the excuses that he personally hit SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras, shows that he struck sensitive strings in Koumoundourou. It is indicative that, as in the case of Euclid Tskalotos challenged the insult policy, the sister of the former Prime Minister, Janet Tsipras, stepped in to send a message that there are limits.

As a member of the presidential team, he has assumed the role of support, pointing out that the SYRIZA tribes are ready to reopen the dance of internal conflicts in the context of the introversion that the former Minister of Justice denounced when he decided to resign from party organs. before “erasing” it for its statements.

Introversion that Alexis Tsipras and his leadership team want to face by imposing silence on the managers, failing to articulate an opposition speech that does not include high tones but also insults and, above all, proposing a program through which they will address the citizens again.

The intervention of SYRIZA MEP Stelios Kouloglou, who in September accused Koumoundourou of cutting off his site from the Alexis Tsipras interview in Thessaloniki due to criticism, is typical. This is because it speaks precisely of a climate of introversion and absence of program and proposals.

You are not alone. More and more executives are calling for a program to be drawn up, judging that SYRIZA cannot oppose it by denouncing the government as incompetent and hoping that the pandemic and the coming recession will function as the wave that will bring it back to power.

They refer to the polls that show that “hard rock” does not find an answer and the public, despite the problems it faces, turns its back on populism and the new division.

They know, after all, that it was populism that brought the Golden Dawn to the fore, making it one of two extremes that invested in the divisive speech and hatred of the memorandum-anti-memorandum years. In any case, the SYRIZA tribes are getting back to work and preparing for the next period, which is expected to be just as difficult for the “ruling left.”