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From our correspondent in Athens Vittorio Da Rold | December 25, 2015
The father of Alexis Tsipras was a imprendore construction ideologically close to PASOK, the Socialist party then headed by Andreas Papandreou, the father of former Prime Minister George. Alexis Tsipras, 41, therefore, comes from the middle class, his destiny was to become a civil engineer and take the reins of the company of his father. Then life and passion politics have changed the game, but the inside remains a “radical bourgeois”.
It is no coincidence that his program is the creation of a public bank that grant loans to small and medium enterprises, a clear legacy of his personal experience in memory of his father entrepreneur always looking for funding to support new construction.
It does not come, as many leaders of the radical left from the ranks of the unions or of ‘University: has a profession and a bourgeois formation behind. His political model is Andreas Papandreou, the charismatic socialist leader who in the 80′s has expanded the welfare state and social achievements in Greece. But there were other times: it was the time of the floppy distribution of income, now the distribution of the sacrifices of austerity.
And that’s what Tsipras wants to do: make equitable distribution of the sacrifi ces that tax in Greece have literally wiped out the middle class and made inequalities even more extreme. His threats to the tax advantages of the oligarchs who own Greek media empires and economic areas of monopoly in the shadows are his bitterest enemies.
As said the financier George Soros in Davos Qe the ECB will increase social inequalities without fiscal policy of income redistribution because it will increase the value of the firm assset leaving wages. But the austerity own locks that instrument. Tsipras, however, want to use taxation in key social democratic: there is no revolution behind that request, but only a vision of greater social justice to the distribution of sacrifices to pay the price of the sovereign debt crisis.
“My family was a family progressive, not conservative, but my family belonged to the middle class,” said the same Tsipras. The current leader of SYRIZA, the Coalition of the Radical Left, formed in 2004 from the set of various movements, is a brilliant and charismatic character, who has staked everything on the promise to put an end to austerity and to renegotiate the debt with the greek international creditors. Civil engineer at the University of Athens and former member of the Communist Party (KKE), has become known in Greece when it is unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Athens in 2006, however, coming to 11% of the votes while the party had only 5%: a personal success that launched him to the presidency of his movement.
Initially followed by the electorate especially the youth, then expanded the consents to the middle class hit by the crisis. His experience is followed abroad: in Spain, where the new party Podemos considers him an example, and in Italy where the European elections has presented a “list Tsipras’ with little success. The leader of Syriza (born in Athens July 28, 1974, four days after the fall of the regime of the colonels), during his studies he started to do politics in the communist youth movement and soon became one of the leaders of the student revolt against a reform law school. On that occasion he showed a strong negotiating skills and asked only one thing from the beginning: to withdraw the reform. It skillfully managed to drop the Minister of Education and to withdraw the government project. A message to the troika of which asked the government in office not to delete the e-mail of the past four years.
At the policies of 2009, with the SYRIZA parliamentary group, obtained 4.6% . Three years later, with the country devastated dall’austerity and recession, the second round of policies SYRIZA ends touch the 27%: the elections of May 6, 2012 projected Syriza in second place, winning the 26,78% of the vote and 52 seats in Parliament. In the European elections of May 2014 Syriza comes first party in Greece.
In public, Alexis Tsipras does not wear a tie, continues to live in his modest home in the suburbs of Athens. It has not gone to his head and has only obettivo: make less unjust distribution of the sacrifices of the crisis deid ebiti sovereign. In private life has a companion, Betty, the high school sweetheart, never officially married, with whom he has two children that often accompanies to school himself. Football fan, his favorite team is the Panathinaikos Athens.
Tsipras to the polls, “Today you decide: new negotiations or even Troika ‘
” Today The greek people are called to take a step towards a return to hope, towards the end of the fear and the return to democracy. Today we decide if the Troika should go back to Greece following the measures decided by Samaras or start tomorrow with a new and tough procedure negotiations, “said the leader of SYRIZA exit of the polling station where he had just voted.
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