PaSoK: Androulakis, the battle of Crete and the pools of votes in the south – 2024-05-10 01:59:15

The organization of Charilaou Trikoupis made the preparations, gave the green light and the campaign of Nikos Androulakis in Crete starts today 8/5, from Chania.

The president of PaSoK will stay on the island until Saturday. Every day will be different. He will visit municipalities and settlements from Chania to Lasithi. He will discuss with farmers and people of culture about their problems. He will meet local authorities, tourism operators and professionals from all over the island. On Friday he will be in Sitia and attend the funeral of Phoebus Ioannidis. A fighter of the democratic faction who was imprisoned during six of the seven years of the dictatorship.

Vote tanks in the South

Nikos Androulakis, born and raised in Katsamba, Heraklion, originally from Arkalochori and the Lasithi plateau, is closely connected to Crete. This is something that was recognized by the inhabitants of the island who elected PaSoK second in the previous national elections. Second, with large percentages, in three of the four prefectures of the island. This electoral rise in Crete carried over and raised the party’s percentages throughout the territory. It was there that the reversal of associations with SYRIZA took place. Koumoundourou has thrown her weight in Crete wanting to limit the electoral impact of PaSoK. Harilaou Trikoupi wants to increase it. The battle of Crete is crucial as it will affect the war for second place.

The power, but also the voice of Crete, is known in PaSoK. Nikos Androulakis also knows it, who believes that there are reservoirs in the south from which he can draw preference crosses and find himself in an advantageous position over his rivals. He also knows that the island that attracts his origin has many and important problems, to be precise, what is happening in the agricultural sector has not left it unaffected.

In this tour, he aims to highlight many of these problems that plague households and at the same time, to convince his compatriots that PaSoK has proposals that make it a reliable and serious political force. With these proposals, their standard of living can be improved. It is enough for the Cretans to listen to the cries of their democratic conscience and trust PaSoK in the European elections of June 9.

The tour in Chania

Nikos Androulakis’s first stop is Chania. There, today at noon, an old friend will be waiting for him at the entrance of the town hall. This is the re-elected Mayor of the city, Panagiotis Simandirakis. The two men are linked by a long friendship of more than 20 years. They fought common battles in their youth, from the same political stock. Most characteristic of all is the conference of the youth of PASoK in the spring of 2007. Where the president of the party began to build his leadership profile, when he was elected first by the body of congressmen, with the then young and quite active Panagiotis Simandirakis coming second, in a process voted on by more than 5,000 delegates. Since then the two have been together.

They will sit together today at the Chania town hall. They will be under the imposing portrait of Eleftherios Venizelos and they will talk about the problems of the local self-government.

According to Vimas information, Panagiotis Simandirakis will point out to Nikos Androulakis that the administration of a Municipality is faced with the daily life of citizens with scarce resources, with understaffed services and without any inclination from the central administration to cut through the bureaucracy and real institutional decentralization. At the same time, he will emphasize that necessary cuts are needed in the public administration and he will ask for the help of the president of PaSoK in this. The two men will then tour the streets and shops of the city. With stops in the shopping center and in many parts of Chania, such as the old port of the city.

A telling element of the effort made by Harilaou Trikoupi to strengthen the footprint of PASOK in Chania is the fact that there is also a candidate for MEP from this region. This is Maria Dafermou who is an educator and secretary of equality of the party and she will also be in Chania today.

In the afternoon, Nikos Androulakis will have a meeting with the members of the prefectural office at the party’s offices and will be informed, according to information, by the Deputy Mayor and deputy secretary of N.E. Chanion Yiannis Nikiforakis on how the party will move at the local level in the European elections. Immediately after the end of the meeting, Nikos Androulakis will visit Ramni Apokorona and attend the anniversary event for the national resistance.