In early May 2015, a few days after Janis Varoufakis and Danai Stratos were photographed at the “Paris Match” overlooking the Acropolis and shortly after Euclid Tsakalotos was appointed to head the negotiating team, a wide, evening event took place at the Maximos Palace meeting.

Alexis Tsipras, in a harsh tone, asks the then finance minister to limit and even stop interviews in domestic and foreign media that cause buzz on social networks and negative comments about the government at an extremely difficult moment. Janis Varoufakis agrees. A few minutes later, to everyone’s surprise, he announces that he has to leave the meeting for a short while to do an interview. “It was planned” was his excuse, when the ministers present and close associates of the then Prime Minister were disbelieved.

The backstory that “K” managed to learn was the beginning of the end of the stay of the then Minister of Finance on Nikis Street. In July of that eventful year, he was forced to resign. Since then, his relationship with Alexis Tsipras has remained “frozen”. Janis Varoufakis, having included in his ranks former members of parliament and leaders of the LAE who left SYRIZA in August 2015, formed an anti-memorial nostalgic coalition, strengthening his radicalism. With the Dimitra plan, according to the official opposition, he returns to the fore the resolved issues that relate to the activities of banks and do not concern society. Kumundura is watching with concern the “damage” that could be inflicted on a fifth of the elections as a result of the sudden awakening of the front against SYRIZA. Result; The official opposition should work like a “pendulum”, and a possible co-government with MeRA25, which was not ruled out a few days ago, should turn into tolerance. Always with the clarification that all scenarios assume victory in the elections on May 21st.

Kumunduru is trying to find out if Varoufakis’ strategy of remaining in opposition has led to a “black hole” among the left, in which voters have already begun to get lost. The first sample of the Pulse poll was alarming. It’s not just the anemic voting picture he presents three weeks before the polls open. SYRIZA falls after a long time by half a point, and MePA25 “stings” by 1.5%. In addition to underestimating his abilities, colder varieties give a different reading. The public currently directed towards the former finance minister is not on the left of the political spectrum, but on the anti-systemic vote. SYRIZA should not be chasing what is moving in the direction of the “left-wing apartment building”, the majority argues. “He will lose a systemic vote if he devotes himself to attracting an anti-systemic one,” an experienced party member stressed to “K”, adding that “when you are at 26% without maximum mobilization and looking towards 3%, you will inevitably go to 15%.”

Kumundura is watching with concern the “damage” that could be inflicted on a fifth of the elections as a result of the sudden awakening of the front against SYRIZA.

It is a fact that during this period there is great mobility among the left, extra-parliamentary and extra-parliamentary. Perhaps Kumunduru underestimated the capabilities of his former chief executive and thought that he would not be able to get into parliament. And collaborationism was said out of place in order to repatriate the public that supported the party twice in 2015. After Yanis Varoufakis’ statement that he would rather “cut off his own hand” than fight with Alexis Tsipras, Dimitris Koutsoubas said bluntly about SYRIZA that this is “the worst government”. Especially the statement of the secretary of the KKE outraged many within the party. Alexis Tsipras never ceases to point out that in difficult times, both will be called upon to take over their responsibilities. Many in the official opposition now believe that, given the new facts, the president acted wisely towards Pavlos Polakis, because if he began his impeachment, he would bring more people into the “arms” of Janis Varoufakis.

“With Olaf Soltz as best man, SYRIZA should ‘marry’ PASOK,” said another official, who claimed from the outset that the “divorce” from Janis Varoufakis was eight years old and final. Taking MeRA25 out of the framework of the co-government, Alexis Tsipras once again “turns a blind eye” to Nikos Androulakis, who does not even want to hear about cooperation. This is probably one of the last attempts to be made before the elections. The triple “no” received by Alexis Tsipras shows that the path to either joint government or tolerance will be a long one.

According to K’s information, a meeting of the expanded executive apparatus was held on Thursday and a “minimal program of consultations” is already prepared, which Alexis Tsipras will hold with him when the time comes to discuss with other forces the possibility of cooperation after the victory of SYRIZA. . The President will present it next week along with the government’s overall program.

50 day program

Punctuality and Revenue Boosting package includes policy announcements issued by SYRIZA. Significantly, the party promises an increase in the minimum wage to 880 euros, a 10% increase in public sector wages, an annual adjustment of indexation, and the restoration of the 13th pension of 2019. At the same time, SYRIZA promises to suspend auctions of first homes. for property up to 300,000 euros (before the vote on the new law), regulation of debts of individuals to insurance funds and tax authorities, reduction of VAT on food to 6% and reduction of the special tax on fuel (abolishing it for agricultural oil).