SYRIZA’s transformation

No sooner had newly installed Education Minister Niki Kerameus said that the conservative government intends to revoke a decision by the previous administration to establish a fourth law school in Patra in western Greece, former prime minister Alexis Tsipras reacted by accusing New Democracy of pandering to private interests. "Whereas we were busy opening new, quality public schools and departments, New Democracy is now closing them down to make way for private ones. [ND claims to be doing so] so that [Greek] children will not have to move abroad. It is deeply hypocritical," he said.
Had Tsipras chosen to end his sentence at that point, we would perhaps have been able to dismiss his own hypocrisy. The problem is that the SYRIZA leader went further: "I knew that New Democracy was unhappy at the election result in Achaia, but I never thought it would actually rush to punish an...