By Antonis Anzoletou

The loudest “bell” of leaving SYRIZA was rung by Euclid Tsakalotos during the discussion organized by the newspaper “I Epochi” with executives mainly from “Ombrela”. In the official opposition five days before the Central Committee meets, the “sirens of war” are sounding with the presidential and internal party opposition preparing for a tough battle. Exits whether mass or individual cannot be ruled out. Even if the deletions of the four executives are not finally officially discussed, as the Ethics Committee – as has been said since last week – does not have time to run the procedures to prepare the transmission to the supreme governing body. The vote that will take place, probably at noon on Sunday, on the text of the Political Decision will be of interest.

Everyone in Koumoundourou was waiting for yesterday’s appointment of the former finance minister. He is the head of the “53+”, has kept the most low-key tones than the rest of the “main shareholders” and is the pole of reference of the internal party opposition. “I came down as a presidential candidate in SYRIZA. And at the end in my conference speech I said win or lose I want to do one thing. To bring back the pride of the people of the Left for their ideas, for their proposals, for their struggles. I’m sorry, I find this extremely difficult to have, this pride in this party”, he stated effectively opening the exit door for him and his companions. When this will happen is not yet known. They are still trying to find the right time in the “Umbrella” as the time is not politically neutral. They do not want the new movement that they are preparing to “deflate” on the way to the European elections and at the same time they consider that it is impossible to stay in Koumoundourou any longer. This is why the Central Committee at the weekend is crucial.

From yesterday’s event, the position of the professor was also interesting Antonis Tzanakopoulouwhich has been compiled with “Ahtsioglu block”. “We need the modern Left as an oasis, but the organization that has the name does not seem to have grace anymore,” he said characteristically. In fact, he added that “we did not resist as we should have. We embraced apolitical rhetoric. We let the statutory procedures languish,” he pointed out.

The first meeting

If yesterday’s appointment had taken place a few months earlier, things might have been different. Stefanos Kasselakis and Nikos Androulakis, in their first foursome, they decided to march together in parliament on the wiretapping issue. Everything shows that SYRIZA will also sign the request submitted by PASOK for the establishment of a preliminary investigation committee for the Tempe accident. They are two issues that are “convenient” for the two powers and the partnership is estimated to cause rifts in the government camp. Can this partnership go a little further? It is extremely difficult. And this is not an estimate, but the strategy that both leaders have prohibits any such thought. SYRIZA is trying to get out of the intra-party vortex in which it has found itself and maintain with a margin of safety the position of official opposition. PASOK sees that it has in front of it a great opportunity to restore the bipolarity, as it was reflected in the country from the post-colonial period until 2012. However, what separates the two forces, which occupy the second and third places on the electoral map, is that “fishing in the same waters”, that is, in the wider area of ​​the center-left. Therefore the autonomy of their movements will not enter into any negotiation at the given time.