"The unveiling of Tsipras's private party, named ELAS, has confirmed just how old this 'new' initiative—which has been heavily promoted for months—really is," PASOK stated in a press release.
"Mr. Tsipras, who brought in the funds despite promising debt relief—with what credibility will he resolve the 'red' loans?
The man who chose not to tax shipowners but to cut pensions—as J. C. Juncker recently stated—and bled the middle class, scientists, and freelancers—with what credibility will he inspire confidence that this time he means fair taxation?
The man who twice secured 41% for New Democracy and suffered the greatest defeat of any official opposition party in the post-dictatorship era—how will he bring about political change?
Mr. Tsipras once embraced populism and its illusions; today he embraces vested interests and collusion.
As for his aversion to party debts, he should know that PASOK has settled all its debts to the banks under the leadership of the late Fofi Gennimata and Nikos Androulakis. Why doesn’t Mr. Tsipras say a word about the bankrupt party-affiliated media outlets and the laid-off workers he left behind? Why doesn’t he respond to his successor in SYRIZA, who alleges he found “slush funds”? Why doesn’t he disclose how he funds a party with expensive communication campaigns and a nationwide network?
And finally, a crucial point: “Can the man who in 2015 brought the worst form of the far right into government at that time lead an effort to defeat the center-right and the far right ? People change, but their history follows them. That does not change,” said G. Siakantaris not long ago, as recently as 2024, in the newspaper TA NEA.”