Tsipras eyes return to politics - Will announce party after summer

Speaking to ANT1 television anchor Nikos Hatzinikolaou, Mr. Tsipras said his movement would welcome all willing participants unconditionally, with no reserved positions. He stressed the initiative would be built in society, not in parliament, and would not initially form a parliamentary group.

Mr. Tsipras dismissed both governing New Democracy and opposition PASOK, asserting that neither party could serve as a genuine alternative. He charged that roughly half the current cabinet consists of PASOK figures, creating what he described as a revolving-door fusion that renders the socialist party untrustworthy as an opposition force. “It is not Mr. Androulakis’s fault,” he said, “but the osmosis is visible to everyone.”

He outlined his new party as a convergence of three political traditions: radical left, social democracy, and political ecology.

Turning to Mr. Mitsotakis, Mr. Tsipras said a government with 40 ministers, deputies and officials forced to resign over scandals across seven years was politically untenable. Drawing a parallel to Richard Nixon, he argued the prime minister faces a shrinking set of options and must either name those behind the wiretapping operation or face accountability before the political system.

“If he truly had no part in this,” Mr. Tsipras said, “let him say who did.“