Tsakalotos to Tsipras: Make some self-criticism first

Euclid Tsakalotos, the former finance minister and one of the 11 MPs who bolted from SYRIZA to create the New Left party, said former leader Alexis Tsipras needed to make his own self-criticism.

Tsakalotos responded Thursday evening with a Facebook posting to Tsipras' assertion earlier in the day that the New Left "defectors" left when they were defeated in the leadership contest, indifferent to the fact that a fragmentation on the left would help SYRIZA's adversaries.

"No, my Alexis, we didn't leave because we lost. We left because we were witnessing our party being vaporized and who can claim, seeing what is transpiring today in SYRIZA, that we were not confirmed in our choice?" Tsakalotos said.

But the former minister, who was long seen as the leader of SYRIZA's left-wing and the most likely successor to Tsipras, before his candidacy imploded last fall, laid...