New Left leader Charitsis urges leftist unity after Tsipras resignation

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Alexis Charitsis, person of the New Left, a SYRIZA splinter party, described former premier curate Alexis Tsipras’ resignation from parliament on Monday arsenic “a idiosyncratic choice, which is wholly respected,” while urging left-of-center parties to unite against the ruling conservatives.

In an interrogation with Real FM, Charitsis said the precedence should beryllium “the broadest imaginable unity and rallying of the forces of the Left against the beforehand of the Right.” He said the Left “must person a program, a strategy and an ideological direction” and called for moving “from treatment to action.”

“Without hegemonist attitudes, but besides without exclusions, there indispensable beryllium a sincere governmental statement astir the aboriginal of the Left and the progressive movement,” Charitsis said.

He besides echoed Tsipras’ rejection of “messiahs” successful politics. “From present connected it will go wide who means what they accidental and who will enactment it into practice,” helium said.

Tsipras, who governed Greece from 2015 to 2019, stepped down connected Monday arsenic an MP aft 16 years successful parliament but pledged to proceed governmental activism extracurricular the legislature, further fueling speculation helium whitethorn effort to regroup forces connected the center-left. Analysts accidental New Left itself could look divisions implicit immoderate such determination by Tsipras.