PASOK: Manolis Christodoulakis… for president, when the time comes? –

Many were surprised by the self-referentiality of the text with which PASOK‘s Eastern Attica MP Manolis Christodoulakis, after the internal party elections that re-elected Nikos Androulakis as the party’s president, set the tone for the following day. However, the analyzes of… narcissism do not decode the intervention of Manolis Christodoulakis.

Manolis Christodoulakis makes a post-election statement that is highly political with messages inside Charilaou Trikoupis, with ambitions that spring from the text and reach as far as claiming the presidency of PASOK, when the time comes! Something like a warning for the last chance of Nikos Androulakis and as a preparation for the new generation of leadership, with Manolis Christodoulakis himself as the central figure.

The (carefully) worded citation of a “curriculum vitae” of his career within PASOK was politically targeted in order to present the reasons for supporting Haris Doukas and to conclude that he will give a strong “present” to the developments, effectively warning that the national ballot box will include at the time of crisis for the new leadership… “I don’t believe in the rule of law and the debts of history, but in work and effort. A huge opportunity opens before PASOK to claim the governance of the country. When the time for the next ballot arrives, we should be ready,” he noted. He even added: “No one will wait for us forever. We join forces for the victory of PASOK. We’re moving on. We continue.”

For many, however, the introduction of the text with the phrase “My PASOK (….)” caught the eye, which reminded… presidential greatness of a neighboring party of the centre-left/social democracy space.

The statement made, after the internal party elections of October 13, 2024, by Eastern Attica MP Manolis Christodoulakis, is as follows:

“Friends and friends,

In October 2009, at the last election victory of PASOK, I had just turned 18. I don’t know what I can remember since then, time is running fast, everything seems very far away.

My own PASOK, the one I lived from the inside, the one that made me dream, was not governmental. He was fighting for survival, in adverse conditions. What I learned then is my guide.

First, be proud of your faction and have the courage to shout it out loud. Secondly, don’t forget that you are not the center of attention, it is the people and the society you represent. Third, don’t be afraid to take a stand on the big and the important, because otherwise you’re fooling yourself first. Because the only battles lost are the battles not fought. As difficult as they are.

In these internal party elections, I chose to support the person who symbolized the confidence of a leap, the closing of a cycle and the beginning of a new one. The person who presented a different management model that strengthens the collective, but also the political distinctiveness of the faction without entrenching it, so that the battle with the ND in the national ballot box is not only administrative, but political. I chose to support Haris Doukas, in a battle for the principles and values ​​of PASOK, a battle with respect and dignity. I’m proud of that.

It would have been hypocritical if I had remained silent in such a critical situation, in front of such a great opportunity for PASOK. You are in politics to speak your mind and take a stand, not just to instrumentally interpret any outcome. Especially when you ask a society that is distant and horizontally averse to politics and engagement with the public, to take a stand and break the silence of its sofa, you must be the first to show the example.

The result can be seen in the perspective it has today. Nikos Androulakis now knows what needs to change. He renewed his term and will lead PASOK into the next battle with the support of all of us. Self-explanatory, clear, clear. Unity is not an opportunistic choice, it is an attitude of life. I learned to serve her, that’s what I did, that’s what I’ll continue to do.

In the last three months I traveled all over Greece. I saw citizens watching intently, I saw smiles that were not ashamed. I saw anticipation, persistence, but also demands.

Regardless of whether they made the same choice as me, all of them are the faces of PASOK. In Athens, in Eastern Attica, in Thessaloniki, in Crete, in Larissa, in Patras, in the whole region. Everyone, without spatial divisions, without declarations of intra-party opinions. Our real defeat will be to disappoint them.

I don’t believe in legality and the debts of history, but in work and effort. A huge opportunity opens before PASOK to claim the governance of the country. When the time for the next ballot arrives, we should be ready.

No one will wait for us forever.

We join forces for the victory of PASOK.

We’re moving on. We continue.”

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With respect to Thanasis Karteros