«An excessive amount of sunshine creates a desert” says an Arabic proverb. A phrase that vividly captures the scenario contained in the PASOK on this heat, summer season and on the similar time pre-election interval.
Occasion management candidates are dwindling. On the similar time, the variety of folks going to the gatherings is lowering. Cafes and municipal halls that welcome the candidate leaders will not be full, abandoned, even when they’ve air con.
Nikos Androulakis, Haris Doukas and Pavlos Geroulanos have the 5,000 signatures required by EDEKAP to be candidates. Michalis Katrinis and Anna Diamantopoulou are nonetheless accumulating.
Milena Apostolaki left. Yannis Kanellakis and Nadia Giannakopoulou are looking for folks to signal and assist them. If they do not discover it, then we go to an election with 5 candidates of various traits every. Purely political traits that may emerge within the televised match, which can happen after the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the declaration of September 3.
There, within the telefight, the political course that PaSoK will take the subsequent day will develop into clear, whereas the presence and speech of the presidential candidates will weigh on the end result of the inner occasion elections.
Autonomous PASOK
The primary to ask for the talk was Nikos Androulakis, who’s the one one who doesn’t face organizational issues. The president of PaSoK in his excursions explains the explanation why he picked up the gauntlet and went to the elections.
On the similar time, he asks the world of the faction for calm, that the polarization doesn’t attain the bottom and urges the executives who assist his candidacy to place themselves politically, to hearken to the proposals of his fellow candidates and to guage soberly. Nikos Androulakis at all times talks about an autonomous PaSoK. “With weldings, behind-the-scenes video games and a few monetary pursuits, the Democratic Occasion is not going to develop into nice,” he frequently states in outings and interviews. He additionally speaks of a “proud PSoK” and depends on the occasion’s proposals on well being, schooling, the housing disaster and the price of dwelling. Positions that can even be highlighted within the telefight.
Raises the tone
“These proposals elevated PaSoK and after a yr gave it first locations in prefectures and plenty of second locations in numerous areas” an in depth affiliate of his mentioned in “Vima”. As well as, he doesn’t neglect his parliamentary duties.
Subsequent week, PaSoK is predicted to boost the tone with essential interventions within the Parliament concerning the dramatic scenario of the Nationwide Social Safety System within the upcoming psychological well being invoice, but additionally concerning the huge potential that is still untapped by the utilization of public property within the upcoming invoice and considerations the Superfund.
It introduced grumbling
At the moment, Sunday, Haris Doukas returned from Paris, the place he was on the event of the Olympic Video games. Within the Metropolis of Mild, he had contacts with mayors from everywhere in the world, whereas he additionally had dinner with former Prime Minister George Papandreou, who can be in Paris as vice-president of the Worldwide Olympic Truce Middle, and on the menu had been the inner occasion affairs of the PaSoK.
Within the mayor’s camp, they’re proud of the signatures which were collected and the tempo at which this course of is continuing. Nevertheless, the “name” he made to executives who went from PaSoK to SYRIZA and didn’t provoke introduced grumbling within the faction.
“This transfer is a declarative aspect of his intentions for the subsequent day” his inside occasion opponents remark, with many officers reacting and accusing him of “syrizizing” PASOK and he responding with the instance of Kostas Chrysogonou.
A number one government of Harilaou Trikoupi, talking to “Vima”, identified that “this place of Mr. Doukas because it was made is nebulous” and continued by saying that “it’s good to say what he defines as a problem. As a result of simply the truth that some left PaSoK in troublesome occasions for a celebration in energy that cooperated with ANEL is a problem. He should additionally give names. To inform who’re those that will come”.
So long as this dialogue about a gap on the left lasts, Haris Doukas is making ready this week for a tour of Crete, with Manolis Christodoulakis by his aspect. In accordance with data, the mayor of Athens is prepared to even go to a seashore bar with the intention to deal with the younger people who find themselves staying away and method them.
The map of Gerulanos
Pavlos Geroulanos has his personal political platform on this election. It’s about “RENAISSANCE II”, as he has known as it. This can be a map that’s primarily a 27 web page research. The unique research was created in 2017 and up to date earlier than the elections.
This political method goals on the decentralization of energy as a situation for the truthful distribution of wealth, but additionally the event of the patriotic financial system as a basis on which the center class in Greece will as soon as once more be constructed. He talks about this plan on his excursions together with his supporters and talks a few large PSoK. From there he’ll draw arguments within the telefight.
The employees of Pavlos Geroulanos are glad with the truth that within the subsequent few days the complete communication marketing campaign is “locked”, in addition to the planning of the excursions. Excursions that will have already multiplied, however he himself requested to have time to dedicate himself to defending and selling the positions of PaSoK in two payments that got here inside one week and he’s the rapporteur. The primary considerations the merger of Pankritia Financial institution with Attica Financial institution and the second considerations DEKO and public property.
The “centre-right profile”, the “crutch” and flirting
Anna Diamantopoulou and Michalis Katrinis can even participate within the debate, the time and particulars of which might be determined in August, each of whom haven’t but collected the required variety of signatures, however are nicely on their method. With their companions stressing that it’s a matter of time to assemble the required signatures.
The candidacy of Mrs. Diamantopoulos shuffled the deck inside PaSoK. It politicized the method, overturned associations and new situations of inside battle had been created. Many executives accuse Mrs. Diamantopoulou that her profile is center-right.
On the tables arrange within the streets round Charilaou Trikoupi, the alliance he had made up to now with George Floridis, who’s now a minister within the authorities of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is being mentioned. In addition to the political flirtation she had developed with the Prime Minister when he nominated her for the put up of OECD secretary normal.
On the similar time, her opponents argue that if she is elected, then New Democracy could have an interlocutor and associate to kind a authorities the subsequent day. The previous commissioner and minister, nonetheless, clarifies that the dialogue about “decenique” has a logic of defeatism and that she is speaking about a big PaSoK with a governmental perspective.
Chatting with “Vima”, her shut affiliate identified that “her steering wheel for the management of PaSoK is the social democratic logic” and continued by stating that “Anna Diamantopoulou addresses the a million individuals who voted for PaSoK and haven’t voted once more since”.
Michalis Katrinis, for his half, speaks for 40 minutes politically on the gatherings he does, analyzing points associated to the financial system, well being, enterprise, labor and nationwide points. Concerning the way forward for the faction, he speaks of a big and broad democratic faction, which can talk about with all neighboring democratic areas, reminiscent of those that co-signed the movement of no confidence.
This faction will intention to win the elections and excludes in any case the participation of PaSoK as a element in a authorities with New Democracy and Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
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