Ex-finance minister Tsakalotos questions Tsipras’ leftist credentials

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Ex-finance curate Euclid Tsakalotos has criticized erstwhile premier curate Alexis Tsipras, questioning his leftist credentials and caller nationalist interventions.

Speaking to Open television connected Friday astir Tsipras’ speech astatine The Economist league successful Thessaloniki, bluish Greece, Tsakalotos – a founding subordinate of the New Left, a SYRIZA splinter enactment formed successful precocious 2023 – said the erstwhile premier “does not adjacent look to presumption himself arsenic a leftist anymore.”

“I understood that helium wants something very systemic,” Tsakalotos added, referring to speculation astir a imaginable caller governmental inaugural by Tsipras, who is present a SYRIZA MP. He besides said Tsipras’ proposals “leave nary country for the Left.”