Haris Doukas: I will probably be each mayor of Athens and president of PaSoK – 2024-07-19 14:37:19

“The collection of the chief is a poll field of nationwide dimensions” stated Haris Doukas referring to the inner get together elections of PaSoK. In a full-length interview with ERT, he referred to PaSoK’s path in the direction of the federal government, but in addition to his personal, twin function within the occasion that he’s elected president of PaSoK. He additionally referred to Fofi Gennimata and his co-candidates Nikos Androulakis and Anna Diamantopoulou.

The intra-party poll has nationwide dimensions

Particularly, referring to the inner get together elections for the collection of the brand new President of the PASOK, he stated that it’s “a essential course of that has nationwide dimensions. It’s not only a PASOK poll field. It’s a poll field that may reconstitute the Democratic Get together as a complete with PaSoK because the protagonist. On this poll field, we invite all progressives, all democratic residents of worth, who imagine in ruptures and intersections with established pursuits and institutions, to enter the method and assist us”.

Each Mayor and President

Responding as to if he will probably be part-time president and part-time mayor within the occasion of his victory within the inside get together elections, he replied: “I will probably be a mayor who, as I’ve been doing till now, implements his program to the letter. And on the identical time, if the residents select and assist me, I may also have one other high quality that belongs to the President”.

He even added that “this can be a European acquis” because it “strengthens the establishment” which, as he stated, “has been dehydrated”. Wanting to clarify what he means by this time period, the mayor of Athens stated: “I can not open a street, Vasilissis Olgas. I have been preventing for 3 months now and one other three within the transition and we’re ready for the archaeologists.” As he stated “that is additionally a matter of tasks and sources and capabilities. So, the calls for for the native authorities and the Municipality of Athens to be extra autonomous and impartial are essential.”

Eager to reply whether or not he’ll handle, within the occasion of election, to hold out these two qualities, Mr. Doukas stated that he’s not in favor of a “male precept” however in favor of the groups: “I imagine very a lot within the man and the workforce and his capabilities that is why within the Municipality of Athens I’ve 26 municipal councilors who for the primary time in historical past all have a task, a cause and a portfolio and interventions in essential positions”.

Actually, as he identified, within the occasion of his victory, “PaSoK will probably be extra participatory, collective. We’ll co-shape and there will probably be executives who’re very robust and worthy, parliamentarians who will all have a task, cause and duty. Groups make the distinction.”

From survival to transcendence

Talking lastly about Mr. Androulakis, he stated: “I respect Nikos Androulakis, I supported him and he supported me and he fought an vital battle. However I believe I’ve stated it different instances that there was a survival cycle of house. We had a really tough time due to Giorgos Papandreou and the memoranda and all of the captains, Venizelos Gennimata and Nikos Androulakis, took loads of duty. Now we have now to shut this cycle of survival and go to the cycle of transcendence.”

The objective is for PaSoK to rule

Relating to the course of PASOK within the elections and the opportunity of post-election cooperation, Mr. Doukas characteristically stated: “The get together has an autonomous course, ensured by Fofi Gennimata” including that “it will likely be the soul of the democratic faction that may govern the nation within the subsequent nationwide elections. That is the objective.”

Mr. Doukas’ reference to Anna Diamantopoulou was attention-grabbing, with which he stated that he has large variations no matter whether or not everybody talks about social democracy. Referring to the social democracy he stated “I believe the social democracy has loads of issues in entrance of it and in too many circumstances it compromised with the markets, with very large processes that we did not management the hypothesis and the tremendous income and it hit its head in opposition to the wall. That’s the reason social democracy should change and perceive that the central factor is the particular person and never the markets and proceed to vital ruptures, conflicts and intersections.

“The abscess of crime will break”

On the event of the controversy on crime within the Municipality of Athens, Mr. Doukas emphasised that in cooperation with the Greek Police “we’re preventing in opposition to the legal group with extortion in outlets”. As he stated the detection of sworn officers in three completely different companies reveals “the tentacles of corruption and entanglement”.

“We now have to take a look at our group as a complete. There ought to be regulatory frameworks, very strict fines. Digitization shouldn’t be for digitization, however there ought to be processes” he famous. And as he identified “there will probably be zero tolerance wherever it comes from”.

Requested in regards to the extortion ring that was revealed within the Municipality of Athens, Mr. Doukas wished to say that “the abscess will break”. Nonetheless, as he emphasised, there ought to be no stigma connected to municipal and public workers. “There are such a lot of folks doing nice work. They compete with little or no cash in understaffed places of work… Nonetheless, those that violate pays, simply because the regulation supplies.”

“To interrupt the vitality cartel”

Lastly, the mayor of Athens didn’t fail to discuss with the excessive vitality prices that plague households, referring to the surplus income of the suppliers, saying that “we should break the vitality cartels”. He additionally referred to the Public Electrical energy Firm, which, as he stated, has one other function and never a profit-making one: “The function of PPC is to meet its public character”, he famous saying that he believes that there ought to be a ceiling on the value of electrical energy.