I read and hear from friends of ELAS of A. Tsipras that it is of little importance that in all the election contests to date he was defeated by Kyriakos Mitsotakis. That, they claim, does not mean that he won't be defeated or defeated at all times. I think that's exactly the logic of the roulette player. He's always betting on a number hoping that by the law of odds someday the ball will «sitting» to him. The problem is that by the time that happens, there is the serious possibility that the player has lost all his capital. On his feet and destroyed, he'll see his number coming out eventually, but it'll be too late.
In politics what counts for a politician is whether it has been recorded in the conscience of citizens in the category of those who win or those who lose. Something like «Thanasakis the stateman» From the movie of the same name. Dinos Iliopoulos, who played his son-in-law, after the successive failures of Thanasakis to be elected MP, told his mother who was struggling in front of the radio the night of the results: « Thanasakis is one of those who don't come out.».
That's how A. Tsipras is in danger of being considered one of those who don't win Mitsotakis. That he's lost by hand. The theory that he looks forward to 2031 is like comfort to the sick. By then no one knows how the environment will be shaped, international and internal. So, A. Tsipras' associates and friends are trying to embellish her, talking about strategy over time.
Notable, and this is what is important, is not only Mitsotakis' election victories over Tsipras. We should also take into account the fact that, as elected leader of the New Republic, he took a poll head from A. Tsipras which it has maintained for ten consecutive years. This fact gives the Prime Minister the comfort of asking citizens who they prefer for prime minister: him or the leader of ELAS?
Of course Mitsotakis carries the deterioration of his eight-year rule, apparently and he is not Mitsotakis of 2023, but he is not at least at risk from A. Tsipras. On the contrary, the latter's reappearance makes sense to awaken memories, which he tries to store with rebranding.
No matter how much support he gets from financial interests, no matter how many alliances he enters into with his old right-wing loves, no matter how generous efforts he makes to present the game as a derby, the only derby visible is that for the second place.
