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ATHENS — Greece’s left-wing former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday launched a new political party that he hopes will unite the country’s splintered opposition amid nationwide frustration over the political establishment and its corruption.
Tsipras, who lost power in 2019, gained international prominence as leader of the radical Syriza party that confronted Brussels and Berlin in high-stakes rounds of brinkmanship at the height of the eurozone debt crisis.
Since then, the country’s politics have been dominated by the conservative New Democracy party of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Comfortably ahead in polls, he is expected to call an election before the summer of 2027 and Tsipras is stepping up to cast himself as a potential challenger.
The erratic, 51-year-old Tsipras styled his new “Elas” party as a move to unite the left beyond his original far-left base although he has — somewhat controversially — taken the name from the army of the communist resistance movement in World War II.
