Popular Unity

Wednesday will witness the first and only televised debate of the seven political leaders whose parties were represented in the outgoing Parliament, sans the ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn party.
The political “gab fest” will come days before the third time Greek voters are asked to cast their ballot in 2015.

Speaking at a press conference in the framework of the 2015 Thessaloniki EXPO, leader of Popular Unity part, Panagiotis Lafazanis said the his former party SYRIZA had been forced to a ‘humiliating resignation’.

On the increasingly biting election front, former SYRIZA minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, the head of the leftist breakaway party Popular Unity, was scathing in his criticism of resigned PM Alexis Tsipras on Monday, charging that the latter erroneously believed the coming snap election would be a “cake walk”.

One might disagree with his political analysis and views, but it has to be acknowledged that he has been consistent in his opinions all along. In an interview to Greek state TV ERT, Monday, Kostas Lapavistas, member and candidate of the SYRIZA-break away party Popular Unity, ‘warned’ the Greek people to expect ‘monstrous’ political collaborations after the September 20 elections.

Former Greek Finance Minister of the SYRIZA-ANEL government Yanis Varoufakis said he was undecided as to who he would vote in the upcoming September 20 elections, in an interview to Belgian newspaper ‘L’Echo’.

Panagiotis Lafazanis leader of the leftist party Popular Unity, formed from radical left SYRIZA, said the Greek citizens had turned into ‘slaves of ruthless blackmailers and guardians’ referring to the Troika and the third memorandum, Friday.

The latest poll count ahead of the Greek elections on September 20 is tightening with the difference between the two major parties being a close call. The latest round of polls show some voters deserting the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA), putting the conservative New Democracy main opposition leader Evangelos Meimarakis slightly ahead.

Combative Parliament President Zoe Konstantopoulou, now days away from the end of her tenure due to snap elections, launched into a stinging attack against her former SYRIZA comrades during an appearance in a TV newscast on Thursday.
“It would have been honorable for him (former PM Alexis Tsipras) to have asked for the Greek people’s mandate before he voted for the memorandum”.

A high-profile and mostly expected “divorce” between brash Parliament president Zoe Konstantopoulou and Alexis Tsipras’ SYRIZA party was finalized on Monday, with the former the latest cadre to bolt what radical critics now term as the “leftist alibi” for the third memorandum.

Setbacks for increasingly embattled former PM Alexis Tsipras continued to mount at the beginning of the week on Monday, with a long-time …speechwriter being the latest to abandon the SYRIZA “ship” ahead of snap elections on Sept. 20.