ANEL leader Panos Kammenos (left) and Syriza leader and Greek PM Alexis Tsipras (right) embrace at a rally. PAimages/Lefteris Pitarakis. All rights reserved.
In one of my older commentaries for openDemocracy, written shortly after the January 2015 elections, I had speculated that there were two possible trajectories for the evolution of the Syriza-Independent Greeks (ANEL) condominium.
The one assumption was that ideological disagreements in crucial areas of policymaking (e.g. military expenditures or the Church-state relations) would emerge and eventually lead to a split.
