The former prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, intervened in the political developments, but also in what was going on in the Center-Left.

Speaking at the 4th Forum of the Economic Post, he estimated that “the picture tells us that it will be very difficult to have a self-sufficient government”, and added: “I don’t have fortune-telling abilities. The fragmentation of the progressive space is not positive, it is to the benefit of the right and the Far Right. If we want to have a positive perspective for progressive forces and an alternative progressive government, multi-currency should make us think about how we will overcome it”.

As for his personal role, he noted: “I’m not unhappy that I’m not on the front line at this time. I am not inspired by the situation. An active politician can do important things even if he is not on the front line. I am an MP of SYRIZA, I care about this space. I will go this way and try to find an alternative in this place”.

Alexis Tsipras also referred to what Angela Merkel writes about him in her recently published memoirs, retrospectively claiming his vindication for the difficult decisions he was called upon to make. Said Mr. Tsipras: “When you go to negotiate, you start from a position of reaction. It hasn’t bothered her, but it seems it has bothered you. I studied all the alternatives, but I never considered the option of going back to national currency. If there was no obsession with Greece’s exit from the euro then things would be much better. In the 17-hour negotiation there was Schäuble’s insistence about which Barack Obama personally informed me that we go to a Fund that will be managed by foreigners in Luxembourg. Thomsen insisted on a second pension cut…History is written by the winners. but then the foreign office comes and they declassify some files.”

Mr. Tsipras turned against those who, as he said, “led this propaganda” and added: “Some were also Merkelists. This book obviously has its own subjective perspective, but Merkel was a protagonist, not an observer. He cites facts that are indisputable. SYRIZA succeeded in saving the country. In ’14 and ’15 it was not at all a given that this would happen.”

About his first visit to Berlin he said: “when I went to Berlin we sat at a table. He told me that “here you have some obligations. You have 14 commitments and Samaras has fulfilled only one”. The Samara government had suggested that we make a yalantzi exit. To exit, but to enter a line of credit… It is a myth that the negotiation cost 100 billion. The truth is that this dramatization of the referendum, which was the moment of the country’s salvation and some called it a flop, was a plan b. Plan a was to go to an honest compromise. Thus the myth that the 3rd memorandum was unnecessary and the heaviest of all is dispelled. The moment of historical assessment is coming when everything will be brought to its true size. We came out of the memorandums with the SYRIZA government. As Merkel says, in 2018, Europe was also saved.”

He referred to the issue of the Presidency of the Republic and succeeded against Megaros Maximos by charging it with the nomenclature. “Christos Ramos is a respected and disobedient judge. However, if we want to be institutional, we must not enter into a nomenclature that has been opened under the responsibility of Megaros Maximos. While there is Katerina Sakellaropoulou, why is the government looking for another person? What has he done wrong? This is a game of the ND with the institutions”.

He also referred to the economy, accusing the Maximos Palace of “Paerocracy” and explained: “If you don’t go through Maximos, you don’t get a loan and you don’t have financing.”

Regarding Androulaki’s proposal for the taxation of bank profits, he argued that “the proposal is too little, too late. There needs to be more taxation and the money to go into a guarantee fund for households and businesses that don’t have access to credit.”