Former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras yesterday marked a new chapter in his political journey by resigning from his parliamentary post, plunging SYRIZA PS MPs into embarrassment in the face of the latest and most painful split in the party he led to power 10 years ago.

With SYRIZA PS on the verge of dissolution, Alexis Tsipras’ next moves seem to have been sensed a few days ago by the well-known music composer, Stamatis Kraounakis, stating that “my feeling is, with my well-known friendship with Alexis, I think he doesn’t want to be a party, he wants to be Prime Minister”. “One thing is one thing, another,” Kraounakis concluded, only the artist’s intuition seems to have detected the core of the former Prime Minister’s thinking, who reportedly ardently desires his return to a leading role, but in a more… American.

Choice List

Specifically, according to reports, the former Prime Minister wants to be present in the next election, namely the 2027 national elections, claiming from the position of leader to return to a leading role in the country’s political scene. In this context, the plan that his close associates are reportedly working on throughout the last period is to draw up a “Tsipras list”, that is, an electoral ballot, which he will lead, to anticipate any political developments. Especially, in case they arise earlier and in connection, always, with the broader mobility in the progressive hemisphere.

Besides, not a few of the former Prime Minister’s interlocutors do not disregard the need to integrate experienced political cadres, such as former ministers and current MPs, into the new, electoral scheme, given that a competent cadre of about 2.000 people nationwide, a potential that can communicate with the social base, to enter the “battle of the cross”, but also to have a sufficient percentage of recognition in the TV panels.

In this light, the solution of an electoral scheme will allow Amalias to quickly regroup, after the embarrassment that gripped most of the executives in the field yesterday, but also to be able to integrate persons and social currents from all over the country, without any particular organizational burden, but also to be able to establish binding relations for the future.

At the same time, through the process of the electoral ballot, MPs and cadres will be able to join it without the suffering of a narrow party identity or to initiate any velvet exit from other parties, such as SYRIZA PS. At the same time, the new anthropogeography that will be formed in the progressive hemisphere with the electoral list as a backdrop will reportedly be the template for the new party, which will follow as the culmination of the former Prime Minister’s osmosis with the social base and in any case after the national elections.

Not coincidentally, moreover, in his resignation statement yesterday, the former Prime Minister said that “I do not believe in Messiahs, nor in party lab constructs. But I do believe in the power of the popular movement that collectively fights for social justice”, in order to then unfold a broad appeal to both his former comrades in SYRIZA PS and the entire progressive world.

“I believe in the will and actions of the many. With them, their needs and their hopes, I am determined to meet. I want to address my comrades, all those who have marched together to this point and shared our struggles, anxieties, hopes and dreams. We will not be rivals. And maybe soon we will sail together again to more beautiful seas,” Tsipras stressed, who far from closing his doors to several of the cadres with whom he was in cahoots, but this does not mean that Amalias will not proceed with a tough face control for those cadres who want to jump into the new electoral scheme.

The near resignation

However, yesterday’s surprise attempt by Alexis Tsipras left even his close associates stunned, as he had made sure to inform only the President of SYRIZA PS, Socrates Famellos and 1-2 other executives a few minutes earlier that he was going to resign.

In reality, however, the idea of Alexis Tsipras’ resignation from the parliamentary office had been cultivated in his mind since the summer of 2024, when the former Prime Minister was reportedly on the verge of leaving the Parliament. This was because his successor in the party leadership, Stepanos Kasselakis, had publicly hinted at the existence of “black funds” in Koumoundourou. At the time, however, close associates of Alexis Tsipras reportedly thwarted him with much effort, as most of the
Tsipras Guard, i.e. the cadres directly attached to the former Prime Minister, were initiating the intra-party procedures for the disqualification of Stefanos Kasselakis. This was the reason why his stable of interlocutors finally transferred him, in order for him to remain a deputy until the attempt to remove Mr Kasselakis from Koumoundourou was completed.

Syriza MPs in shock

In any case, yesterday’s day passed almost excruciatingly for many of the top SYRIZA PS members, since, except a few of the former Prime Minister’s interlocutors, most MPs were informed by the… media about his resignation, many of whom were at that time on morning television shows, unable in the first few minutes to decode the move of their former natural leader, if not to realize his sudden move.

To the point that in their first statements, several SYRIZA MPs PS to act defensively, repeating that they have been elected with the party’s jersey and “have Socrates Famellos as their leader”, such as, for example, the MP for State, Elena Akrita. “We are not a fan club to follow the leader” commented from his side the MP for Drama, Theophilus Xanthopoulos, while developments in SYRIZA PS predicted Christos Giannoulis, while Giorgos Karameros appeared ready for the new “seas” of Alexis Tsipras, remaining in office until then.

From the first moments that Alexis Tsipras’ resignation from the parliamentary office became widely known, successive meetings between top executives followed in Koumoundourou, as SYRIZA PS President Socrates Famelos had announced from the Central Committee’s podium last weekend an initiative for a common stance of the opposition parties on the labor bill. Despite the widespread embarrassment, Famellos initially sent the relevant letter to the heads of the opposition parties, while the first meetings had begun in Koumoundourou to decide how they would move in the future in the face of Tsipras’ decisions.

Choosing to move in parallel with the former Prime Minister, and in any case not in opposition, Socrates Famellos said in a statement that “I honour Alexis Tsipras, our cooperation and the historical legacy of the SYRIZA government”, in order to point out that “the crucial issue for society is to get rid of the Mitsotakis government as soon as possible”, an issue on which “at this stage we have different views on how this will be done. But we will not be opponents,” Famelos concluded.

Next party member of SYRIZA

The fact, moreover, that “overcoming the fragmentation of the progressive space”, as Famellos described it, requires a “strong SYRIZA,” makes Alexis Tsipras’ course in relation to his former party parallel, if not opposed, with Koumoundourou and Amalias waiting anxiously for the first wave of polls. Nevertheless, at the end of yesterday’s day of great developments, the former Prime Minister did not fail to declare of the members of his former party that “we are not rivals”. Probably judging by the fact that Tsipras has not yet sent his resignation letter from SYRIZA PS either, remaining formally a party member.