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ment where the United Kingdom is becom- two parties PASoK and Nea Demokratia DOSSIER
ing a part. In Corbyn, observed from this (New Democracy) for decades were passing
distance, it is already easy to recognize that each other the ping pong ball of populism
his success is mostly due to his political ar- through the electoral farce supported by
ticulation of the new wave of progressive the uncontrolled borrowing. In their es-
left-wing attitudes for which it is already sence, the parties have grown into clan
clear that they have a fertile ground in the movements whose management was a
numerous young population, which due responsibility of several clan families, and
to disagreement with the existing political Greece became one of the most heavily in-
order, stayed outside of the political move- debted countries in the world. The emer-
ments of the “mainstream” parties. how- gence of Tzipras was not an opposition to
ever, if the political blitzkrieg (“lightning the populism that existed until then, rath-
war”) of Tsipras with his SyrIZA in Greece er it can be illustrated as an occurrence of
is observed, you immediately face a vast a basketball of populism for which the two
lack of consistency caused by the impact of parties did not have an answer and which
the local circumstances in Greece. Namely, not only rejected the two parties from the
although on the basis of the new left-wing game, but it also broke the table of their
economic doctrine, which finds its foun- ping pong game of populism. And when
dations in the economic postulates of the the ball (the basket) hit the wall set by the
Noble-prize winner Stiglitz or the notable european Union and when Greece faced
Thomas Piketty, it turned out that the suc- the reality of a possible “Grexit”, Tsipras
cess of Tsipras is rather a product of rebel- not only gave up on the populist position,
lion and saturation with the past clan po- but also accepted deeper saving measures
litical order in Greece, instead of a need of than the ones for which the voters initially
a new political thought. There the largest voted for him in order to abolish them. In

bernie Sanders, leader of the new democratic socialism in the united Alexis Tsipras, leader of the ultra-left party SyrIzA in Greece
States
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Tsipras from Greece and Sanders from the United States are the
option in their countries. The analysis of their political platforms does
of the common ground, on the contrary, their success if specifically
prerequisites in each of the countries.

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