For the upcoming European elections, “the left and official opposition must take advantage of the “delayed” decay of the government, due to tragic events that happened a year ago,” he said.
“Many times, Mr. Mitsotakis has the feeling that he has no opponent and is in danger of running alone and coming second,” assessed the former president of SYRIZA-PS.
“We have throughout Europe a noticeable and dangerous rise of far-right populism and battles not between the left and the right, but the stake is the percentage of far-right parties with some of them coming out first” he noted about the situation in the European Union.
Alexis Tsipras underlined that the stake of the elections for the European Parliament is to rebalance the political system, i.e. to enable the Left to keep its percentages in order to be able to claim the government of the country in the next parliamentary elections.
“The picture at the moment is that Mr. Mitsotakis is running in a track race alone and is in danger of coming second”, he said characteristically and emphasized that if Kyriakos Mitsotakis registers a very low percentage compared to that of the national elections, he will have a problem.
“The Mitsotakis government has fallen for issues that happened a year ago” added Alexis Tsipras, underlining that “considering that you are alone is the greatest arrogance”.
Suffocating conditions due to accuracy
Commenting on the state of the Greek economy, the former prime minister said that at a macro-economic level the figures are positive, noting that the foundations for this to happen were laid in the four-year period 2015-2019 when the country returned to the markets and the SYRIZA government made the cushion of 47 billion . euro.
However, Alexis Tsipras expressed their concern about the medium-term prospects of the Greek economy.
“Growth rates do not spread to society” the former prime minister argued, adding that “it seems that precision – which is no longer imported – creates suffocating conditions for small and medium incomes”.
“Strengthening Europe’s strategic autonomy is critical”
“The concept of geopolitical security obviously also depends on deterrence capabilities, but mainly on diplomacy and foreign policy,” noted Alexis Tsipras on European politics and diplomacy.
“The crucial issue is the strengthening of Europe’s strategic autonomy. This is how I would see the strengthening of the Defense. But Europe is not moving in this direction: We have two wars in Ukraine and Palestine. Europe must be with the rule of law and peace” added the former prime minister, stressing that everyone would expect diplomacy to be more active to stop the war in Ukraine and Palestine.
“I’m not saying that we shouldn’t care about defense, but that it should be intertwined with a foreign policy strategy,” added Alexis Tsipras.
“Erdogan has a clear strategy”
“Turkey has a clear strategy, whether it escalates the tension, or there is a de-escalation, we are still looking for our own strategy,” Alexis Tsipras stressed about Greek-Turkish relations and the actions of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“How can we imagine the country living with such a neighbor? do we claim a solution within the framework of International Law without concessions?’ asked the former president of SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance about the diplomatic movements in the Aegean.
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