A persuasive response to the “new president of the Patriotic Left”, who would “like to go back and forth, as Periandros Popotas used to say in the well-known serial”, as he typically mentions, gives to Stefanos Kasselakis and Euclids Tsakalotosreacting to the statements of the new president of SYRIZA about “the time when SYRIZA ruled with Tsakalotos and Katrougalos”.

THE finance minister on the SYRIZA government he emphasizes that Mr. Kasselakis “certainly would not govern with me”, adding that he did not ask him if he would like to participate in such an “imaginary government”.

He adds, however, that “what Mr. Kasselakis is essentially saying is that he is not available to defend the legacy of SYRIZA and the choices of Alexis Tsipras, whom he is supposed to be praising”.

Euclides Tsakalotou’s post in more detail:

Mr. Kasselakis would certainly not govern with me, without however asking me if I would like to participate in such an imaginary government.

Mr. Kasselakis also would not collect the 37 billion for the fiscal cushion so that we would come out of the memorandum without a credit line of support.

The new President of the Patriotic Left would also like us to go “back and forth”, as Periandros Popotas said in the well-known serial. This is how he imagines the future, as a pure past, with all the dangers for society and the economy that such a goal entails.

However, what Mr. Kasselakis is essentially saying is that he is not available to defend the legacy of SYRIZA and the choices of Alexis Tsipras, whom he is supposed to be praising.

It seems that Mr. Kasselakis is open to integrating a large part of the narrative of the anti-SYRIZA current within SYRIZA, as G. Stathakis aptly observed in his recent article. He will probably continue to do so until he completely dismantles the offer of the first left-wing government in the country and the millions of citizens who supported it and still defend it, fully aware of the difficulties and weaknesses of the whole enterprise.