SYRIZA aiming for the center and the young vote

SYRIZA chief Alexis Tsipras is pondering the idea of taking the issue of safety from Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' pre-election agenda and using it to respond to the public outcry stemming from the Tempe rail crash. The leftist opposition is thinking of launching the slogan "Safety Everywhere" beside its previous "Justice Everywhere" rallying cry in order to underscore the conservatives' failure to create its much-touted "executive" state.

In the wake of the February 28 accident, the leftist opposition is seeing an "anti-Mitsotakis" front being formed in the place of the "anti-SYRIZA" wave that lost it the election in 2019. At the time, Mitsotakis was the answer to ending the coexistence of the left with the far-right and the government that raised taxes on the middle class and was stigmatized by the national tragedy at Mati. Now, in 2023, Tsipras will seek to propose...