Tsipras’ “Ithaca” has quarreled the Greek political elite

“Ithaca” by Tsipras provoked a wave of criticism: former allies and opponents ex-prime minister attacked for his political revelations. Stavros Theodorakis, Panos Kammenos, Manolis Otonas And Stefanos Kasselakis trying to refute key episodes from the book.

Political reactions to Tsipras’ Ithaca

Around the book release Alexis Tsipras “Ithaca” a full-blown political storm unfolded. The former prime minister in his publication actually dismantles a whole layer of his own era in power, affecting almost all members of the 2015 cabinet – from Yanis Varoufakis to Panagiotis Lafazanis. Predictably, the reaction was immediate.

2015 είναι το τηλεφώνημα με τον Πρόεδρο Ομπάμα από τις Βρυξέλλες….. pic.twitter.com/bqwJ7JklDY

— Panos Kammenos (@PanosKammenos) November 24, 2025

First, former party comrades criticized: Pavlos Pollakis, Nikos Pappas, Alexis Haritsis And Zoe Constantopoulou. Then other political figures joined them – Stavros Theodorakis, Manolis Otonas (director of the deceased’s office Fofi Gennimats), Panos Kammenos and leader of SYRIZA Stefanos Kasselakis.

Harsh criticism from all sides

Political opponents also spoke harshly. Adonis Georgiadis stated: “He was always selling stories. If three-quarters of his own ministers were incapable, how does he expect to ask for the confidence of the voters again?”

Dora Bakoyanni I am sure that Tsipras has not left politics completely: “Tsipras’s next party will be the most leader-led in the modern history of Greece.”

Government Representative Pavlos Marinakis added that in the book of 750 pages there was no place for a single phrase of self-criticism: “When the captain himself lands the ship on the reefs, it is unfair to blame the crew.”

Objections from event participants

Former President of SYRIZA Stefanos Kasselakis called the book a “washing machine” created for making excuses. He said Tsipras twice tried to engineer his overthrow. He also walked sharply through Betty Bazzianeclaiming that her English is “worse than Alexis’s” and that she simply did not understand the journalist’s question.

The political explosion around Ithaca demonstrates that the old conflicts in Greek politics have not gone away. And Tsipras’ book only brought these fault lines to the surface, opening a new round of mutual accusations and revisions of the past.

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