The "First Time Left" had shown its arrogance from the beginning, during the presidency and prime ministership of Alexis Tsipras. Now, we experienced its crescendo, but also manifestations unprecedented in our political life, a distortion of politics, expecting at the same time a new militant and hasty... prime minister, and anticipating the birth of children from the newlywed couple Stefanou-Tyler, always in the company of their dog .
Comic-tragic events, and the tragic ones concern the despair and impasse, felt by serious people, worthy people with a solid ideology and dignity, who accepted the arrows of their leader, and as members of the Central Committee of SYRIZA, were labeled by the same "Fifth Phalanx" . Enraged, Mr. Kasselakis, as he found himself in an unprecedented war situation, where "bravo" was combined with "disgrace", he considered, perhaps out of ignorance - I would say leniently - that ... he was the leader of a Fifth Phalanx! This is the result of the politician, who believes in the "one man principle", who decides and orders and imputes to his collaborators "Pummaro's policy".
Within the same setting, and the trick of the referendum in order for a part of the dissidents to leave, and another to remain, as an internal opposition. Maybe at some point the hidden Alexis Tsipras will appear as...the machine God to save SYRIZA and upgrade the Left from the first to the Second Time Left. The only sure thing is that he still remains "non-Left", essentially insulting this ideology. And the future is not, I believe, so invisible. Heraclitus said "the oiisin prokopi enkopien", arrogance, in other words, blocks the advance, and the most unpleasant thing is that it is not narrowly just about the advance of a party, but about the advance of an...unhappy people, always gullible and always betrayed!
Prof. Stella Priovolou, president of the Body of Emeritus Professors of EKPA, dean of the Municipal People's University of St. Paraskevi.
