2023-12-25 07:40:17
The saying of a famous apologist is important. “Never before will the ballot box of the European elections be evaluated as politically as the upcoming one.” And it is true that all political forces are waiting for the European elections, each for a different reason.
For SYRIZA-PS, this ballot box will be extremely critical. Almost existential features. Many people today forget that the big bet for Koumoundourou was already described by Alexis Tsipras after the polls of the national elections in June.
A lot changed shortly after, such as his departure to Zappeio, but not this bar. And in fact, with greater interest today, everyone is waiting for the performance. Due to many things.
First of all, because the bar and this percentage will be the first official and big crash test for the new president Stefanos Kasselakis. Even the bar of questioning him or not passes here for many of his friends and enemies.
Although from the beginning he has set a high goal for victory over the ND, at the same time he has made it clear that regardless of the result he will be the leader in the battle of the national elections that will follow.
Last time Kasselakis raised the bar in the party’s KO during the budget. “But even in the European elections, no matter how difficult it may seem, the bar is set high: to victory. We are not concerned with a petty confrontation within the progressive space about who will be more or less second. This may concern some others, who constantly speak in the name of the democratic Party, but have forgotten what the historical role of the democratic Party is in this country: to stand against the Right and to win it. This is the role of the democratic Party of the country!”.
According to a source very close to the new leadership of SYRIZA, there is no numerical target. But the political goal is also twofold: that the 41% of the May-June election ceases to be an alibi for the ND (therefore there is serious electoral damage) and that SYRIZA-PS has a result that is a sign of its restart and a trigger to change associations.
The difficult – due to poll results for Koumoundourou – bar is obviously dependent on many things. From the image of the recovery of the party hurt by the split. From a new persuasive plan that will also be formulated in connection with the February conference. From stopping the trend of disaffected voters in three “funds”: PASOK, KKE and New Left.
Due to all of the above difficult parameters, there is a portion of Syrian executives today who see the goals and milestones more realistically. Dionysis Teboneras, for example, definitely subscribes to them, who recently in an interview (To Kokkino) said that “whatever happens in the European elections, SYRIZA will maintain its status as the official opposition party”, adding that “it must signal to the citizens that we are a government-in-waiting, we must be at least the second party in the European elections”.
In terms of the existence of SYRIZA, a reading calls for the battle of June 9th to be extremely critical, since if SYRIZA formalizes its divorce from the “governmental trajectory” and with a possible final move to a moderate party – below PASOK and very close to the KKE in other words – it will run the risk of being deflated, the political scientist and analyst-writer Nikos Marantzidis (tvxs) has also said this in detail.
The second strength for the Koumoundourou staffs will be a point of containment – on the other hand – of the trends within SYRIZA and an indicator of resilience in the new progressive landscape where PASOK is approaching with dynamic terms.
The strategy of rescue and recovery of SYRIZA is of course currently on paper by the leadership with the first and foremost condition being a kind of extroversion but also a war against the Mitsotakis government. Is enough; No, say all sides since it must be combined by a new organizational restructuring and also a new relationship with society.
For the oldest ones who have remained in SYRIZA, this is also a successful conference.
“Let’s put a red line on the sliding of the progressive space into small protest parties and the mutation of the progressive space into a liquid landscape that does not feed each other from the social need,” said SYRIZA KE member Haris Tsiokas just Thursday in an interview, echoing a point of view which sees that the restraint of his party is also dependent on the restraint of the centrifugal forces.
A parallel way – which exists on paper and is beginning to take shape – is to pose as a dilemma how the multi-splitting of space favors the Far Right in Greece but also in Europe (Alexis Tsipras’s view too).
In this SYRIZA strategy, there is no room for a front with the New Left or competitive terms with forces other than the government. The tripartite Democracy – precision – way out will be the crucial and new thing for 2024 and the forces of Koumoundourou.
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