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A breakway in Worthy Homeland?
Some rumors point to a possible split of critics with the party leadership
Pericles al-Shakir, former minister of Science, is considered to be the one behind the internal revolt
Despite continuing to achieve better results election after election, it seems that not everyone within Worthy Homeland is happy with the work carried out by Aristarchos Kouridis as general secretary of the party.
"What is better, having a broad voter base or being faithful to our ideals?" ask some critics, who believe that the significant increase in votes for Worthy Homeland since Mr. Kouridis took the reins of the party - going from the 38 seats they won under the last leadership of Iason Simatos to the current 138 - is due to the renunciation of "some core lines" of the Worthy Homeland ideology, and they wonder if it is worth it.
For the moment, these voices are nothing more than a mere noise in the background in view of the excellent electoral results that Worthy Homeland has successively achieved since the arrival of Aristarchos Kouridis at the helm, once again taking over several regional governments and once again acquiring considerable parliamentary power. However, the loss of the national government after the last elections - mainly due to the electoral debacle suffered by its coalition partners, Unsubmissive Left, which lost all the seats in parliament - has dealt the first blow to the waterline of the iron leadership that until now was maintained by Mr. Kouridis.
The team surrounding the Secretary General minimizes these criticisms, arguing that as in any democratic political party "there are always and it is healthy that there are divergent political opinions", but that in this case they are nothing more than a clear minority and above all, that the good electoral results do not imply "a renunciation of the core ideology of Worthy Homeland", but rather a "better communication strategy with citizens, who have once again understood that voting for Worthy Homeland is voting for a healthy and strong nation."
Kouridis himself has not commented on these internal criticisms, but claims that the party is a "strong and united" bloc, which now "has to act as the only parliamentary opposition to the Center Union government, which is going to use their parliamentary roller to pass any law they want".
According to information to this newspaper, the number of current Worthy Homeland parliamentarians who could produce a split in the event of a bad electoral result after the next elections - and if they are re-elected to office - amounts to 24, among whom we can find the young Minister of Science of the previous legislature, Pericles al-Shakir, whom many consider to be the instigator of the possible internal revolt and who is already preparing the launch of a new political formation to take the place of Worthy Homeland, which they consider "amortized."
al-Shakir, who during the previous government was considered Aristarchos Kouridis' trusted man, has had several private clashes with the secretary general in recent months, whom he has accused of being "anti-populist" and of trying to gain power by resigning to the ideology of the party. According to these same sources, the former Minister of Science would have given the Secretary General until the next general elections as a deadline to solve the internal crisis, and if he does not do so, it is very likely that he will launch his own political party.