Tsipras Augurs Electoral Victories for SYRIZA

In fact, Mr Tsipras predicted that national elections will soon follow the elections for European parliament, in which his party will garner the victory that has eluded them twice so far, as “anger in Greece has grown since last year's national elections."

The main opposition leader also expressed the opinion that the extreme right wing Golden Dawn will also see a rise in the polls.

The reportage of the interview lingers on the fact that Mr Tsipras “repeated his vow to “cancel” the bailout terms”, adding that “the opposition leader insisted that he would not abandon the rescue entirely, saying he believed international lenders and other eurozone countries would provide significant debt relief as part of a renegotiation rather than risk Greece’s collapse.”

In fact Mr. Tsipras has been 'watering his wine' considerably, rounding the corners that, otherwise, would alienate middle-of-the-road voters.

So far polls show that SYRIZA and new Democracy are neck and neck hovering at about 25% of the vote each.

In the interview, Mr. Tsipras distances himself from any rhetoric against Germany, although acknowledging that creditors are German led and that [German finance minister] “Mr Schäuble has different ideas” in terms of additional debt relief, which would involve eurozone lenders accepting large losses on their current bailout loans. He did however note his intention to create alliances in the EU, “for example with Italy, with Spain, with Portugal.”

The opposition leader also reiterated the conviction that the bailout deal as Germany is insisting on is not workable and only spurs on a vicious cycle of “programmes that are programmed to fail.”

Alexis Tsipras also noted that the stand off between the Troika and the government that has held back the bailout tranche “proves that Greece could survive without bailout funds for an extended period.”

Meanwhile, Alexis Tsipras was included in Foreign Policy magazine's list of Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013, in the category "Challengers."