Clouds in cooperation SYRIZA PS and Rear Before she starts well to be discussed she brings the government’s equipment program and especially the fourth FDI frigate Behlarthe acquisition of which is being discussed in Parliament today.
Although her bureau SYRIZA parliamentary group He met yesterday, however, his decision to vote in favor of the new Navy’s new frigate was not easy and certainly not without loss in Koumoundourou’s attempt to lay the foundations in a dialogue with the other progressive forces. And this, because the rally of equipment finds firmly against the New leftwhich is firmly positioned against such a logic, without a willingness to withdraw from its positions, even in a geopolitical context.
On the other hand, for Koumoundourou, the vote in the equipment program did not pass the amount of money, as the party secretary allegedly objected to objections. Stergios Kalpakisas well as the press spokesman, Kostas Zachariadis. “On the one hand you cannot complain to Rearm Europe and on the other to vote frigates intended for this purpose,” those who disagree, and other MPs have said to be supported by personal views, such as other Members, such as George Caramer.
“I will tell you my personal opinion, because this case of frigates is not about Rearm and all of Europe’s war economy, but it has to do with a commitment to the country to shield its defense, especially in the Aegean. The case of the 2+2 frigates has begun by the Tsipras government, “Mr Karameros said, adding that” that the ND government has been wrongly handled by the ND government, that too many resources have been committed to equipment overall, it does not mean that we should not complete this. I tell you my personal opinion. ”
“I do not see the reason to confuse the wrong shift of the European economy with Rearm, with all that exists as a whole geopolitics, with the need for the country to solve the problems it has at the Navy level,” he concluded.
At the same time, the fact that the SYRIZA government had built an interaction relationship with France And in the field of defense is an element that Koumoundourou cannot overlook, as an informal tradition has already been created, especially when SYRIZA supported the government’s equipment program and opposition days in 2021, on the occasion of Rafale fighter aircraft. At the same time, however, those executives disagree with the vote are in the deterioration of the government on foreign policy issues, fearing their positive attitude towards the frigate Behlarra to be perceived as a implied consensus, if not applauding the manipulations of the Grand Maximus.
The case, in fact, is further complicated, given that the SYRIZA party bodies have not met, so that there is an official position, although today the meeting is meeting. Political secretariat of the party, while it is not excluded that the new Left request a nominal vote for the fourth frigate Behlarra, in order to maintain more than the equipment dividing lines more than obvious.
In addition, the new Left had voted against defense spending and at the budget level, as opposed to SYRIZA who voted in favor of Yiannis Ragousis’ recommendation to the party bodies, forming a divergence that would hardly be overcome.
Pressure to SYRIZA and PASOK
At the same time, the fact that the PASOK It is focused on voting in the new FDI frigate further difficult to maneuver for Koumoundourou, who is very closely monitoring the movements of Harilaou Trikoupi, especially in the prospect of forming a progressive forum dialogue, as the president of SYRIZ Socratesas he appeared to sit on a table with a question of dialogue between the progressive forces.
However, the echo of the 4th FDI frigate is estimated to reach its forthcoming meeting Central Committee of SYRIZA on Saturday, where new differences are expected to be added to a process that will move early to high pace, after all, due to the absence of Alexis Tsipras.