The Kasselakis statement about “ministers who kill” continues to expose SYRIZA and preoccupy political news, while the attack on the SYRIZA offices in Kallithea – which Mr. Kasselakis himself denounced via social media – acted as a “pass” for to repeat that he invites “all citizens, wherever they belong politically” to SYRIZA, knowing that this is a position that the party does not like.
Generally and vaguely, Mr. Kasselakis appears as the head of a movement without clear political and social characteristics, at the same time that he adopts the profile of leaders like Trump. He chooses toxicity, popularizes, attacks and threatens as he did yesterday, when talking to health workers in Preveza he told them “if anyone thinks to say anything to you, tell me and I will tear them apart!”.
Open fronts
Adopting “polarization”, Mr. Kasselakis draws a dividing line with the past of SYRIZA, maintains an open front with Alexis Tsipras, strikes against PASOK and the New Left, showing that his strategy aims to gather votes from where he can, but with a timetable for the June European elections.
With this agenda, moving away from the Left or blocking any line of communication with the other opposition parties is a choice of Kasselakis, but also a choice of self-protection for the other parties, although the landscape after the European elections is what will determine the collaborations and if they exist in the space of the Center-Left.
Toxicity
“We would never make such statements. If now Mr. Kasselakis, who has apparently left the values of the Left and is in the ideology of fanfare, chooses toxicity to attract an audience with the admonitions and advice of Mr. Spiliotopoulos, the former government representative of the N.D. . of Mr. Karamanlis, this is a problem that mostly concerns the voters of the Left and SYRIZA if they actually adopt such views,” said Mr. Glavinas yesterday, for example, on behalf of PASOK.
However, Mr. Kasselakis knows that on the night of the European elections, SYRIZA – depending on the result – will be waiting for him around the corner.
Nail by Tsipras
Speaking about Europe at EuroJam 2024, an event organized every year on the occasion of Europe Day by the organization “Tu was für Europa” (“Do something for Europe”), Alexis Tsipras threw a new “nail” at his successor , saying characteristically: “We must make it clear that the answer is not the anti-politics. Neither is post-politics that focuses on “going viral” instead of mobilizing citizens around progressive policies.”
“The parties must realize that the popular majority will not tolerate the repetition and perpetuation of electoral relationships that do not provide solutions. SYRIZA-PS, from its origins, has in its political DNA the political culture of cooperation”, said Dionysis Teboneras, who had been missing for a long time.
“knock down” the common one logic o Spiliotopoulos
Mr. Kasselakis is of course defended by Aris Spiliotopoulos, whose arrival in the close staff of the leader caused great shocks. “Killing” is a phrase that you say in a spoken word about negligence or positively. Haven’t you heard young children say “this ice cream kills?”, he characteristically said about the disputed phrase Kasselakis, in an attempt to cover it up which is however equivalent to underestimating public opinion.
For Mr. Spiliotopoulos – once a close associate of former Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, just like Evangelos Antonaros who is currently a candidate for MEP with SYRIZA – “Mr. Kasselakis operates in a transparent and crystal clear manner and has nothing to hide”. He probably forgot that we still don’t have any information about his business activities outside of Greece which are neither so clear nor so crystal, that’s why the answers are slow.
Also, for Mr. Spiliotopoulos, Mr. Kasselakis who talks about “ministers who kill” and threatens to “tear apart” anyone who speaks to the health workers of Preveza has as a big bet to express the wider progressive space.
The anti-vaccinator Polakis is back
Another supporter of Stefanos Kasselakis is Pavlos Polakis, who may have found his trouble with the candidacy of his cousin Vassilis Kasselakis in Crete, but he firmly supports the new leader of SYRIZA and defends him at every opportunity. “Apsis Sfakianos” returned to the news of his favorite social media on the occasion of the withdrawal of AstraZeneca from the market of vaccines for the coronavirus (s.s.: which did not come because of danger but because it is one of the first, and therefore old, to deal with mutations, which is why it is not in demand) and attacked former comrades, including Alexis Tsipras.
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