Elections: How Alexis Tsipras can strengthen the political center – THE WORLD

yanking is entered: Greece will again select only half a year after the overwhelming electoral victory of the radical left Syriza government. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has resigned because of the rebellion in his party, thus forcing new elections, if no one else can form a government. And now becoming apparent: No one will be able

Allen Surveys should Syriza win again.. While the population does not agree with all the decisions of the government. But it is the fidelity of a desperate society that Tsipras has elected last fighter against the impending doom.

Tsipras wants its loyal voters demand from a new mandate before the people feel the new cuts painfully. And he wants to show his political opponents that he is elected – although he expects of hardship. With this strategy, he had already urged in January to early elections, which earned him the first time the power. In July came the referendum, in which he called the Greeks, the reject what he himself accepted: a new savings and rescue program for Greece. This time the opponent is his own party.

Because many left ideologues in the party were not capable of governing had, Tsipras get rid of sooner or later. Or fail. They had become within the party to an embarrassingly strong opponent of the only possible and realistic course. Tsipras ruled de facto by using the bourgeois opposition against their own internal party zealots.

However, the long term to be successful, it needs to inherit the legacy of Pasok. The traditional social democratic party perished on the crisis, but only a classic social democratic party can appeal to both the concerns of the impoverished citizens as well as the constraints of a realistic economic policy credible. This vacuum must fill Syriza, if the party wants to survive politically. You must be radically different from an association leftist groups to a pragmatic People’s Party.

Syriza will no longer be the home left revolutionaries of all shades so after this election. They will be neither radical nor particularly left. But a Tsipras party that follows a pragmatism forced guide.

was the strength of the Old Left a remnant of those times when Syriza was an insignificant debating club : The wirrsten speakers had the final say in the party organs. In society, however, the left have no real weight, not the voters. Tsipras’ decision to force early elections, marked the end of the Old Left in Syriza alliance: The Left would be either suppressed from the lists of candidates of the party and not return to parliament, thus disempowered, or to secede and fail when choosing

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And so the revolution devours its children. The Communist Platform preferred the self-chosen finish. 25 deputies from the left-wing camp have already split off and founded the new group national unity, which is the third largest in parliament so.

Syriza is therefore naturally weakened, and the question is: Can the Party nevertheless emerge again as the strongest force in the choice and find a majority government? A recent survey of “Bridging Europe” sees the new national unity with 25 deputies, Syriza would fall from 149 to 134 seats. 50 of them would be the election winner bonus of Greek electoral system. The previous right-wing coalition partners Anel stay with 13 deputies. This means that Syriza would certainly win again, the previous coalition would have 147 deputies with too few to form a government. 151 MPs would be needed.

The bourgeois opposition can it so far does not seem to benefit. The old parties New Democracy and Pasok fall according to the survey to 61 (instead of 76) and ten (instead of 13) mandates. For the moderate leftist party is on the upswing, with 21 seats instead of 17 as in January. She has repeatedly offered as a coalition partner for Tsipras, and circles from his environment said on several occasions that he think about it.

Should this happen, with or without Anel, would be the result of Tsipras’ maneuvers to weaken the radical left and even his own party, while also strengthening the political center in Greece. Perhaps a first step back to “normal” political conditions.

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