Final cover selection and bulk printing remain to launch the former prime minister’s book, Alexis Tsiprasas the phase of its writing has been completed, leaving the readers with quite a few twists and turns.
The “Ithaca” of the former prime minister, as his book will be titled it has strong “political thriller” elements, docuseries, revelations, parallel events and many repositionings against the dominant narrative of the past decade, along with unseen aspects about the period’s main protagonists. This is also the main reason why his former comrades are in a waiting phase and clearly embarrassed, manifesting in recent days friendly attacks on Mr. Tsipras, as happened at the end of last week with Political Secretariat of SYRIZA PS.
The highest governing body “showed” the convergence with the political initiative of the former prime ministeralthough it does not even exist on paper at the moment, attempting to soften the distance between them, the one that triggered a series of statements against Mr. Tsipras by his former partners.
Although since the party’s last Congress last summer the former prime minister has been largely on the receiving end of arrows regarding his future plans, his resignation far from redemptive seems to have worked for Koumoundourou, who sees her numbers deflated at the idea of a “Tsipras party».
Somehow, the president of SYRIZA, Socrates Famousand most top executives underlined the need for a structured dialogue with the progressive forces with the aim of programmatic convergence, not excluding Alexis Tsipras. Although initially given the sense of the party’s complicity with the new initiative of the former prime minister during the last meeting of the Political Secretariat of SYRIZA PSexecutives of Koumoundourou rushed to place the matter on a more… fire-fighting and realistic basis, commenting that the current president of the party repeated the core of his political reflection without special references to the natural leader of the field.
After all, SYRIZA as a “social necessity” is the main, red line for Koumoundourou, which Sokratis Fammlos has brought back several times. At the moment when a “small and controlled” party is not negotiating, as many of his interlocutors can appreciate.
Crash test the pre-publications and the Institute
In practice, however, whether the leadership group of SYRIZA insists on the line of convergence or not remains to be seen in the immediate period ahead, as it is a matter of days, according to information, for the pre-publications of Alexis Tsipras’ “Ithaca” to begin, with revelations that those familiar with the content estimate will preoccupy the public debate intensely for months. At the same time, the announcement of the names that will constitute it is expected next Thursday, in all probability Scientific Committee of Tsipras Institutegiving a first and strong impression on the one hand about the political intentions and on the other hand about the ideological positions of the former prime minister in the new phase that he started in his personal journey from the moment of his resignation and after being a member of SYRIZA.
Among them stand out, according to information, academics, scientists, personalities from the domestic and non-domestic space, social partners and cultural bodies.
Since then, however, Mr. Tsipras has broken all ties with Koumoundourou and her past, as he recently clarified in an interview with the Editors’ Journalwhile many consider that the anthropogeography of the Scientific Committee of his Institute will be quite indicative of the new personal identity that Alexis Tsipras wishes to craft through his personal rebranding.