The title of MEGA’s well-known tv collection “Two Strangers” vividly captures the connection between the 2 candidates for the management of PaSoK. By Nikos Androulakis and Haris Doukas.
The 2 males occurred to satisfy yesterday, late at night time, for a relaxed drink, in the identical store, with a view to want the Southern Sector MP Pavlos Christidis for his celebration.
They have been in the identical constructing, however they did not meet. They did not even alternate a look. They did not even say “hey”. The space that they had was brief. Just a few meters separated them. However neither of them made a transfer to go in the direction of the opposite and break the… ice that the attendees felt within the midst of warmth.
Androulakis entered first
The president of PaSoK was the primary to reach on the retailer the place Pavlos Christidis had chosen to carry his celebration. Carrying a saggy t-shirt and denims, he first greeted everybody current. Some additionally requested him for images, which he didn’t refuse. Afterwards he sat with journalists and his outdated buddies and talked. His chair was barely turned and he had no view of the doorway.
At that second, the Mayor of Athens, Haris Doukas, arrived, who additionally entered to want Pavlos Christidis after which greeted individuals who supported him within the earlier interval. He additionally refused to be photographed with individuals who requested him to seize a second collectively.
Half an hour collectively and… aside
The 2 males have been in the identical store for about half an hour. In a bar close to the metro station in Dafni and what those that have identified them for a very long time commented, is that the gap that separates them is lengthy. As soon as buddies and colleagues are actually two strangers in the identical metropolis. The 1.2 kilometers that separate Kotzia Sq. from Harilaou Trikoupi is a distance that doesn’t appear to be bridged. Quite the opposite, after yesterday’s muted dialogue that was accompanied by a convincing silence, every part exhibits that the hole between them has deepened much more these days.
Christides the… unifier
Pavlos Christidis might seem because the guarantor of unity after yesterday’s occasion he held. The reason being not solely that he succeeded in one thing that can solely be finished within the debate. That’s, to place the 2 gladiators in the identical house. However primarily as a result of it honored him with the presence of numerous individuals, with a registration quantity within the group of PaSoK.
THE Milena Apostolaki additionally a candidate for the management of the social gathering was there. Whereas his presence brought about a sensation Yannis Savalanou of her husband Anna Diamantopoulou which many consider will announce her candidate subsequent week. Mr. Savalanos, in a effectively he had with the journalists, prevented saying the slightest factor. He didn’t say a phrase about whether or not Ms. Diamantopoulou shall be a candidate and when she is going to announce it. However she was content material to say that today she is in Kozani and that she would additionally prefer to want Pavlos Christidis.
The occasion was additionally attended by members of parliament Dimitris Manzos, Panagiotis Doudonis and Katerina Spyridaki from the presidential bloc. Colleagues of Michalis Katrinis who have been on a TV present at the moment have been additionally current in addition to colleagues of Pavlos Geroulanos. Candidate MEPs with hundreds of choice crosses on their backs, akin to Kostas Tsoukalas and Michalis Kahrimakis they have been the final to depart the bar. They left along with a number of members of the Central Committee, all of them composing the motley political mosaic that some name “the entire PaSoK”.
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