New Left on a path of dissolution: Haritsis heading for resignation

The New Left appears to beryllium heading toward a rupture, arsenic Alexis Haritsis is reported to person made decisions regarding his aboriginal enactment of the party, against the backdrop of broader developments successful the center-left and the activities of erstwhile Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

As protothema.gr reported respective days ago, an intra-party struggle is imminent, adjacent if it develops successful the coming hours into a “velvet divorce.”

In caller hours, the anticipation of Alexis Haritsis resigning from the enactment enactment has intensified—a resignation that was narrowly avoided astatine the enactment Congress past January—given that wrong the enactment a bulk faction has emerged calling for a much extremist mentation of the enactment and corresponding alliances, with the enactment Secretary, Gavriil Sakellaridis, arsenic an informal leader.

In specified a scenario, portion of the New Left’s Parliamentary Group mightiness besides depart, including Efi Achtsioglou, Dimitris Tzanakopoulos, Nasos Iliopoulos, and others, arsenic astir members rally astir Alexis Haritsis. Haritsis is seen arsenic a fig who could beryllium welcomed not lone by SYRIZA-PS oregon a imaginable “Tsipras party,” but besides wrong Harilaou Trikoupi.

On the different side, a much extremist prime is expected from erstwhile “Umbrella” members, specified arsenic Nikos Filis, Panos Skourletis, and others, arsenic good arsenic younger enactment members who would not reason left-leaning alliances. Recently, they person fueled speculation astir imaginable practice adjacent with Yanis Varoufakis’ party.