Varoufakis's Revenge, Left psychodrama

The challenge between Alexis Tsipras and Kyriakos Mitsotakis is not the only Titanic crash in Greece tomorrow. The voting scenario has another extremely strong political tragedy: the final clash between the prime minister and Yanis Varoufakis, the two alpha males of the Greek left. Once friends, today in an escalation of mutual accusations that threaten to pour into the ballot boxes, granting the centre-right Dea Democratia a classic this of progressive psychodrama to the country's future. The reason? Mera 25, the party of the former volcanic finance minister could lift Syriza's necessary “votes to complete the impossible recovery over New Democrat.

Yesterday was the incarnation of this crash “brother-in-law”, Syriza and Mera 25 have held two final election campaign rallies at the same hour, 300m from one another. Tsipras in Syntagma and Varoufakis a little further, to the side of Propiley.

The knife on the wound has been arranged in the afternoon in Twitter by the leader of Mera 25 who, in only 280 letters, has been synthesized, the beginning of this challenge: “Exactly four years ago, 61% of Greeks said no to the savings programme with a referendum, and the next day they were betrayed by Tsipras. From Sunday, “JO” will be returned to be represented in Parliament”. I mean, from him.

The relationship between the two, the people who know them well, has gone to zero exactly since the evening of July 5th. When the ticket that was making Europe tremble, opposing David against Goliath's recipes of Troika (at very high cost to the country), it divided two ways: Tsipras in Brussels to sign the third memorandum to avoid Greece's collapse and its exit from Euro.

Varoufakis, final clash theory against The EU, home. Exhausted at the unanimous request of all creditors from the government to return as professor of economics at the University of Athens.

Since then, relationships have frozen. Tsipras never spoke of the former minister of finance again. The latter has hit Europe up and down and down the “prime minister who turned the plate” into several books, as well as a conference tour of rock star, which has been held across the Old Continent.

The shy olive branch that Syriza offered several months ago when he persuaded “pontane” The Greek film commission to sponsor Costa Gavras “raised in room”, based on Varoufakis's book, was not welcomed. And the crash in the ballot boxes on Sunday is the final act of psychodrama.

The former biker minister has passed the electoral campaign hitting Syriza from the left: “If we continue to implement agreements signed by Tsipras he said Greece of the future would be a country without youth, because everyone would have emigrated outside”. Leaving the country without real opposition. “What will Tsipras Mitsotakis say, when Monday will be in opposition? He will accuse him of applying the same recipe that he himself imposed on the country”, says the economic politician.

His rival has so far ignored the accusations, limiting himself to issuing calls for the necessary vote. But Syriza is worried. Mera 25 received in European elections 2.99%, just one step away from the threshold leading to Parliament.

“But the media boycotted us and only 38% of Greeks knew about our existence”, Varoufakis charges. Do you call for a favourable vote? “One idiotiac minimizes the former minister of finance. Tsippras will be lost in any case, because voters punish those who implement austerity measures”. And he shakes his program “strong and clean”, consisting of a “reform” of creditors imposed surplus and a ban on privatisation. Of course without the “, nothing was agreed on with the EU, which would do nothing because a Brex would cost thousands of millads”.

If he's right, this will be seen tomorrow night. And at that point, the titanium impact can enter the archives with the classic balance of these battles on the left: the loss of all protagonists.

Taken from the world.al