“The front of the left is formed before the elections, not after.” It’s clarified Janis Varoufakis during a press conference he gave TEF, adding that “who wants us to go to the polls and then they are found, you know what he wants? chair and car.

The head of MeRA25 argued that talking about “teratogenesis” was the impudence of the prime minister. The window for collusion with other neighboring parties is not closed, even if programmatic pre-election consultations do not continue. “If we do not agree, the MeRA25 conference obliges me to do something very radical. I pledged that even if we do not agree on such a discussion, whatever the other parties give me, I will bring them to the judgment of the members of the MeRA25 and DIEM25 pan-European community by voting. I don’t think you can in any way be more willing to have a real debate in order to create a progressive front and a progressive government.”

On the eve of the elections, Janis Varoufakis stressed that his party is negotiating with extra-parliamentary left-wing bodies, movements and parties not on the basis of their absorption, but in a programmatic and ideological context. He sharply criticized the government’s economic policies, saying that the people faced a triple threat:

• “New energy and inflation shock, three times greater than in the 70s.

• A new asceticism that will hurt many and increase debt.

• A new parastatal right-wing organization that Mr. Mitsotakis’s government has been painstakingly building for the past three years.”