Open to discussing the existence of non-public “Harvard-type” universities in the future, Alexis Tsipras in an interview he gave to Stavros Theodorakis (ALPHA) on Monday evening.

Specifically, in response to a question he received about non-state universities and Article 16, the President of SYRIZA characteristically said:that if it were possible to have, let’s say, universities like Harvard separate from the state, then I’m ready to discuss it. But at the moment we don’t have that. We have IEC Fufutos“.

However, Alexis Tsipras clarified that “this cannot be our priority”, explaining that such a discussion “is not denied by me, but by the Constitution”.

To the question “why not repeal Article 16, introduce strict procedures of the Ministry of Education for non-state universities?”, the President of SYRIZA said that the reason is the lack of any trust: “There is no trust in a country where in the name of “we will not have a state, public, air carrier” we have made a monopoly of a private company. Because in a country where in the name of “we don’t want to have a state checkpoint”, we have today built a private checkpoint that competes with private companies in who will get the most profit.”

And he explained:We believe that at the core of some extreme neo-liberals, who believe that the market should grind everything and clean everything up, is that they will make education and universities a field of wild speculation, as a result of which society will further degenerate.. So let’s modernize them (universities) now, because anyway it’s a debate about the revision of the constitution of the next parliament. Let’s lay the foundation for the public universities in our country to be serious, reliable and strong, and when the time comes, we will discuss this,” the President of SYRIZA replied.

“The first and third parties form a government with simple proportionality”

Regarding the stakes of the upcoming elections, Mr. Tsipras stressed that “first and third parties will be able to form a governmentin simple proportional elections. He stated that he does not expect and does not foresee that there will be a government based on tolerance, “and even a party whose president, Mr. Varoufakis, has deliberately brought this obsession of his into the debate, which has finally stopped since 2015 and has made a very big a gift to Mr. Mitsotakis.” “And in any case, with these obsessions, I have no chance,” he stressed.

He noted that he wants a stable, long-term, four-year government and that “this can only be done on a programmatic basis.” “With whom will Androulakis form a social democratic government?” Will he do it with ND? Alas,” he commented. He described President PASOK’s paradoxical condition that the president of the first party in the cooperation government should not be prime minister, believing that he would not persist. “After the elections, we will all act on the basis of responsibility for having a government in the country.” “And the sense of survival of each area separately,” he added, noting that “mostly it will be a problem of smaller parties.” .

“He comes out and says, and it makes sense that the perpetrators of wiretapping of parastatals should go to jail. I didn’t talk about this conversation, Mr. Androulakis said that,” Mr. Tsipras continued, noting that “it is clear that there will be no accountability for the mistakes of semi-state companies before the CE government. “Well, Mr. Androulakis should, if he believes what he says, begin to recognize that the only prospect for a social democratic government and for the purification of public life will be with a government of progressive cooperation with SYRIZA and PASOK.”

Asked if the prison also applies to political leaders, Mr Tsipras said that “when it comes to discussion, it becomes clear that our political and legal system has special procedures for criminalizing political figures. And if this investigation is opened in depth, it is obvious how it will end. It will reach politicians, there are doubts? Who monitored and why? To learn the third, fourth factor, and not Mr. Mitsotakis himself? He noted that Mr. Mitsotakis had said on the conference call that there had been a “scandal” and that there was no “national question”. “If there was no national reason, how could one invoke a national secret to cover up an investigation?” he stressed.

“Kammenos is a necessary evil in 2015”

“What are you talking about,” Mr. Tsipras replied when asked if Mr. Velopoulos could be “the new Kammenos.” “If there is anyone who can work with Velopoulos, it is Mitsotakis,” he said.