“The prime minister acts as an oligarch,” his predecessor told Mitsotakis
The first interview after his resignation by the House, the former prime minister granted Alexis Tsipras In the Journal of Saturday’s editors.
Alexis Tsipras launches an attack on the government and the prime minister, clarifying that “his relationship with SYRIZA has closed” and criticizes the whole political system, including the progressive opposition and the Left, and argues that “only citizens are a force and change”. He explains his personal decision to leave the House and talks about his book published.
About his relationship with SYRIZA he says: “My relationship with SYRIZA was a life relationship, but it is closed. And if one understands my decision not to be a Member of Parliament anymore and to attempt a “march to the people” as competitive, then he is wrong. It is a decision to overcome and not competition. “
For the debate that has opened and concerns SYRIZA MPs, he says that he will not indicate to anyone what to do and clarify: “I have chosen the way out of the system in society in full, without any consultation with anyone. And I have no intention of reproducing tactics of “recruitment” or disintegration, all they can do is intensify the frustration of society. The self -sufficiency and complacency of a self -sufficient Messiah, who recruits his students, is the last thing our homeland and society need today. “
‘The Prime Minister acts as an oligarch’
Hard characterizations for the government and the Prime Minister: “It doesn’t go anymore. With a government that has built a corruption regime and with a prime minister who acts as an oligarch. ” He also adds: “Corruption, the manipulation of justice, the paralysis of institutions, the provocative support of the great wealth to the detriment of the social majority, the weakening of the country’s international position, the governance of personal enrichment, require their wake -up and wake up to the wake of their lives. And of course the reconstitution, reconstitution more correctly, of the progressive opposition. Which in its currently -beaten form, with enclosed and unreliable shapes, cannot play the role that the Constitution defines and society needs. “
Alexis Tsipras also responds to the attacks he has received from the prime minister who described Greece in 2015 as a country: “I respond briefly, that in 2015 we actually received a country-paria country and internationally obsolete. A Greece with 1/4 of the economy damaged, unemployment at 27%, tails in social clinics, grocery stores, but also in rubbish bins, tied up by lenders, with a debt gallows. A society without hope and perspective. He and his lineup, along with the companions and sponsors of corruption, who were guilty of this national tragedy, were “growing strong” and “Basta Schoeble” as we fought for the salvation of the homeland. And in 2019 we delivered them a Greece outside the Memorandums and Committee, with regulated debt, tens of billions in public funds, twelve consecutive quarters of growth, enhanced international position in the Balkans and Europe. And yet they insist on the murder of truth, without any shame. “
Book: Debt to History and Citizens
He does not reveal the title of his book, notes that “this book is a debt to me in history and citizens” and adds: “To illuminate all aspects of the 2015-2019 dramatic period, well known, less well known and unknown. And to respond with facts, elements, documents, to unprecedented abuse, distortion and murder of truth, which continues to this day, for a critical period of our country. With the culprits for the darkness of bankruptcy appearing as prosecutors of those who took responsibility to unleash the future. “
He clarifies that he is not exhausted in the past but attempts to answer today’s critical questions: “Where does the country are walking? What important opportunities did he miss? How can hope survive when society is besieged by a regime of injustice, corruption, demolition of the rule of law, concealment, falsehood and deception? What to do as a society and as a country to get out of the siege and to open a path of justice and progress? “
Resignation ‘Footy forward’
He refers to his decision to resign from the House by saying that “it is a flight forward” and adds: “It is an unconventional initiative with moral motives. I decided to free myself from commitments, posts and mechanisms. To get out of the political system, which in my opinion, as it is, can give nothing to society and the homeland anymore. “
He argues that there is no room for today’s progressive opposition to carry out its role and duties and adds: “I believe that a new patriotism, which transcends reasonable ideological divisions, needs today, more than ever in the period of transition, in all social and social action.”
He clarifies that the renewal of the political scene is not only about government rotation but “it concerns the whole political system, which has now lost the confidence of the vast majority. But mainly concerns the Left, the Progressive line. I think the time has come, we have even delayed, for a great, bold, decisive renewal of practices, language, style, morality, and faces. “
Only citizens are a force of change
What will be his next political move, stressing that examples of the past (such as the Single Coalition or the Multicultural SYRIZA) cannot work for the future, he adds: “With an old passport no one is going to pass into the new era, and will simply perpetuate the regime. The political system, in all its expressions, has fallen into the consciousness of the people. Of at least the vast majority. The parties, justice, the House, the institutions, too. We need new tools of thinking and action, otherwise we will all be swallowed in a dead end. Citizens -this is the power of change today. Only they, “below”, can overturn the “up” data. To put their stamp on developments. “
As for what he puts himself on a left-right scale, he says: “If as the left we mean the left of the resistance, but also the responsibility, the movements and the governance, the history and the today, the programmatic purity and the unifying readiness, then with every modesty. In any case, however, it matters a little to the left on the scale we will place ourselves. I will say otherwise: Left policies are the ones that change a country in the direction of social justice and the well -being of many. “