Komunduru does not expect a new August-Greek “smoking gun” to overthrow the Mitsotakis government, as happened 48 years ago in America. Closed meetings already being held are measuring the profits from the EMP surveillance case and talking about the “torture of the last straw” that the New Democracy will have to go through.

Do they expect tangible results from the establishment of a commission of inquiry? Perhaps only some new revelations that could substantiate their main argument that Kyriakos Mitsotakis could not have been unaware of the surveillance of a political opponent, since the EMP was subordinate to the office of the prime minister. A joint proposal to set up a committee, which is basically a political text, or going further, a joint conclusion between SYRIZA and PASOK-KINAL, perhaps in collaboration with the KKE and MeRA25, could be the best “foundation” of the process to be develop in the fall in Parliament. This requires consent and the creation of a strong opposition front, which Alexis Tsipras is already trying to lead. Once this is done, a new narrative will be ready for SYRIZA on its way to elections: “Parliamentary Minority, Social Majority”.

And since Haris Kastanidis is a member of the PASOK Parliamentary Committee on Institutions and Transparency, official opposition officials who spoke to K have clearly shown their preference for the former minister as the person they want to “manage” Harilou Trikoup’s procedures. . After all, this is the “photo” of PASOK, with which they want to cooperate. “Loyalty tore Harilau Trikoupi from the embrace of the ND,” they say to Komundur. “The psychological relationship between them has changed,” was characteristically said at the last meeting of the Political Secretariat, arguing that Kyriakos Mitsotakis risks being left without an ally in the second election. In a resurrection of the anti-right front, they are now targeting SYRIZA to repatriate disgruntled voters, turn up the bad results of many years and change the decisive victory record. “The anti-democratic bias is, in fact, a litmus test by which everyone’s commitment to democracy and the rule of law will be judged,” Alexis Tsipras told his colleagues, according to K.

“We will support Androulakis and we are also waiting for his own response,” they tell Kumundur.

Obstacles

This does not mean that the problems with PASOK have been overcome. There are still many obstacles to progressive governance. Almost no one in Kumundura believes that Nikos Androulakis will simply end the confrontation. His right wing has already begun to veto him that he is leaning towards SYRIZA. Alexis Tsipras took the first step in publicly supporting Nikos Androulakis last week by intervening on his behalf in a dispute he had with Giannis Oikonomu. This tactic is expected to continue, but in moderation. “We will provide Andrulakis with the necessary support to the extent that he also responds,” one of Komundur’s leaders, who is aware of the plans being developed, told K. If relations do not improve, it is possible that in the near future the “bells” of the leadership of SYRIZA will start calling PASOK about the risk of its “riverization”. However, the fact that, in his recent statement, the head of Harilaou Trikoupis pointed out the “exit door” to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, was assessed very positively in Kumundour.

President SYRIZA’s goal is for his party to become the main pole of the democratic front against the government. And this cannot be done if PASOK, by virtue of its direct involvement in the case, manages to pay all attention to it. The balance is fragile, and they want to make surgical precision in Komundura in the next period. It is no coincidence that last Saturday’s decision to call for a preliminary debate in Parliament, where the absence of Nikos Androulakis, who is the central figure in the case, would be apparent. Alexis Tsipras does not intend to leave the initiative of the movements to any other force.

The official opposition leader also added to his colleagues that “the burden now falls on the necessary institutional changes.” In this regard, party sources report that it was discussed in the recent Political Secretariat that SYRIZA should undertake policy initiatives and convergence with other forces on the control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the independent operation of public television, the rule of law, freedom of the press, etc. As far as political planning is concerned, the demand for early elections and the formation of a progressive government based on the results of a vote of a simple proportional first party SYRIZA remains the main line with which Alexis Tsipras will go to the TIF for two days on September 17th. -eighteen.