Alexis Tsipras asks Parliament Agreement Eurogroup approval

Holding the Alliance Strong

By Kyle Andrew Brown

WASHINGTON, July 14 – Alexis Tsipras will be interviewed tonight on ERT1. The Prime Minister returned to Athens from Brussels yesterday morning charged by the European finance minsters to have the Greece parliament endorse the negotiated Agreement.

What has followed in the last twenty four hours is intense speculation as to how Alexis Tsipras will go about obtaining Parliament’s stamp of approval. It is not so much that approval will not be forthcoming.

Rather, speculation is what will be the party alliances in play to achieve the Agreement’s endorsement by Parliament.

And what will be the composition of the coalition Alexis Tsipras will lead.

The Washington Post puts the speculation this way: “It remains unclear whether he could push through the bills without forming a new unity government, calling for new elections or resigning.”

New elections are not likely – at least during the summer months. Greece pretty much remains electorally aligned as it has been since the February election. An election at this point would be to put the Agreement to a referendum.

That exercise was just completed. And the parties sitting in Parliament broadly reflect the duality of the Referendum’s Oxi : Nai consensus.

It would be naive to believe Alexis Tsipras would resign. The protests for the Prime Minister come from within his own SYRIZA party ranks.

And even Greece oligarchs have come to appreciate the guy is a genuine leader. It may be big city newspapers around the globe that suggest that somehow Alexis Tsipras has been humiliated by the Brussels negotiations.

Oh really?

Greece on the financial ledger sheets with Europe’s bankers this July is in the exact place it was the day SYRIZA took office in February.

The nation may be broke. But it was not this government nor the Greek citizens who elected this government that bankrupted Greece.

And everyone fully knows today why Greece is broke.

That certainly was not clear internationally beyond the borders of Greece before Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA got to the controls of the Maximus radio dial.

It has been SYRIZA and it’s Prime Minister that gave voice to the Austerity Protest and placed the voice of the common people’s grievances inside Maximus.

Syriza’s voice in taking over Maximus has matured – as the once young Alexis Tsipras has matured.

The Greece government is now a seasoned government born of the frustration and anger for the predicament the old parties, the splurge borrowing and  the oligarch theft of billions and billions from Europe has done to devastate the common people of Greece.

Which leaves us to the Washington Post’s speculation about Alexis Tsipras forming a unity coalition.

Should more SYRIZA MPs leave the cabinet and should a successful vote on Thursday endorse the terms of the Agreement – without the support of a majority of SYRIZA MPs – then the Prime Minister would indeed need to from a new coalition.

The disenchanted SYRIZA MPs have in good measure embossed upon the Parliament’s deliberations their legitimate antagonism to Europe and to the undertakings of the negotiations.

The craft of governing requires office holders to use the tools of state craft both effectively and harmoniously. The SYRIZA”s party’s winning Maximus has placed upon the party the responsibility for the security and well-being of the nation. 

SYRIZA as a social and political force is not an old line party entrenched and intertwined with the machinery of the government. Unlike the old party’s of the past SYRIZA has no debts to pay to special interests and the party has no scores to settle.

This is all the nuance of the political maturity that come with governing. 

This is the nature of Parliamentary Government. To govern in the Westminster tradition is to effectuate policy in the prime minister’s office and the cabinet. It is the MPs seat in the Parliament that serves as the foundation by which to achieve and have access to the executive functions of governing.

The Prime Minister cannot really take his party MPs aside – one by one – and bring each MP to recognize her transformation to political maturity as a member of the governing party.

The recognition of attaining a new maturity comes about by personal awareness of growth. 

SYRIZA’S MPs as a party have as yet not fully embraced their maturity. The MPs have not as yet come to a self-awareneas that their guiding principles are indeed shaping the manner in which their Prime Minister has been executing his office.

It is for this reason in the Westminster tradition that the Prime Minister calls upon his party for a vote of confidence. By that vote the Prime Minister is asking his MPs to affirm that he has brought to Parliament a act crafted both by the party’s principles and by the party’s responsibility to maintain the security and well-being of the nation.

The blustering fools and vindictive agents of disharmony in the European Parliament, the Guy Verhofstadts. And the snarling members of the Angela Merkel government, the Wolfgang Schäubles: They all look forward with gleeful anticipation to see SYRIZA topped in the Greece government. 

They view SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, the Greece government and the Greek people as illegitimate. 

Newsit  sources say Maximus is putting out the word that Alexis Tsipras doesn’t forsee forming an alliance with the old parties – the citizens just don’t want to see the old faces at the reins of government.

It just would not be the moral thing to do, says Maximus in Greek Speak.

Which suggests that in the Prime Minister’s interview tonight he may already have gotten his votes among the SYRIZA-ANZEL alliance.