SYRIZA

Syriza is unable to discern the wager of Mitsotakis and his inner circle as regards the effectiveness of the symbolism of various cabinet picks for the next day.

Δεν το πιστεύω. Η γενική εικόνα δείχνει ένα πολιτικό σκηνικό που όλο και περισσότερο μοιάζει με το γερμανικό. Γράφει ο Γιάννης Πρετεντέρης.

Yesterday’s bombshell charges lodged by former Syriza justice minister Stavros Kontonis have stirred a political maelstrom within Syriza but their significance goes far beyond the limits of an internal party issue.

The main opposition party is sailing on the same course that brought its defeat and is thus demonstrating that it cannot or does not know how to change course.

After his defeat in the July, 2019, general election Alexis Tsipras remains almost politically blind. He seems unable to absorb the shock of defeat and to interpret its causes.

In Greece, the “new Left” of Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras and its odd political bedfellow, a nationalist junior coalition partner, did everything in their power to conquer the traditional bastions of news and information.

Former alternate justice minister Dimitris Papangelopoulos has been accused by top prosecutors of raw interventions in their work and of pressuring them to file charges against former ND and Pasok ministers and two PMs.

The possible solutions tabled from time to time - some of which exhibit an odd sense of imagination such as the incredible proposal to erect a floating barrier in the Aegean to block migrant boats from reaching the Greek islands – are merely a drop in the ocean,

Police were also equipped with French Manurhin guns, which Greek Police said were loaded with elastic plastic balls and not plastic bullets.

Main opposition SYRIZA has said it hopes that PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis responded to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan ‘s claim that the party supports terrorism with Athens’ steadfast rejection of such claims. Party sources said that, “Turkey’s effort to present Greece as a country that supposedly harbor terrorists is diachronic and the answer of successive Greek […]

In the case of Mr. Tsipras’ government which came to power in 2015 in the midst of a great economic crisis things were worse.

Political struggles are desirable and necessary, but political culture is also something that has been gained.

The discussion during the three-day debate focused on the government’s announcements and particularly on those pertaining to the economy.

'I was impressed by the shift from invective and shrieks towards an institutional placidity on the part of New Democracy,' Tsipras declared.

Incoming Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was well prepared. He had picked his ministers and associates from a pool comprised of both politicians and technocrats.

Tasoulas was a protégé of the late Evangelos Averoff (whose private secretary he was from 1981-1989), a broadly respected patrician in the ranks of Greek conservatism.

45 percent of respondents trust the new government and 54 percent distrust it, but 61 percent want the government to serve out its four-year term

Yesterday’s elections brought to a close a cycle of governance during which shilly-shallying on a series of crucial decisions and reforms was the order of the day.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he had a clear mandate for change, pledging more investments and fewer taxes.

The safe conclusion is that in difficult conditions two-party hegemony is bolstered and citizens adopt a stark white-black perspective - even if they realise that the complexity of problems and conditions do not permit such an approach.