PASOK: Missed (one other) alternative – The issue – 2024-06-10 23:23:26

“It does not gallop however climbs.” With this phrase, in line with the Vima report, an government of Harilaou Trikoupis commented on the election outcome. The numbers, in comparison with the results of the nationwide election, say that PaSoK is the one social gathering that elevated its proportion. ND misplaced 13 factors and SYRIZA fell one other, transferring under the psychological threshold of 15%. All of that is effectively and good, however does it rank PaSoK “on the successful aspect”? Or do they place it “on the sidelines” for actions that have to be taken?

The primary goal was not achieved

PaSoK didn’t obtain its most important electoral aim. He didn’t assume, with the stamp of the residents, the function of official opposition, the helm of developments within the Heart-Left. He might have succeeded. He didn’t make the most of the interval when SYRIZA was heading in direction of single-digit percentages. He did not have a constant message and displayed a noticeable insecurity. “To say, or to not say, that we’ll be a second social gathering”?

Regardless of this, PaSoK stays very a lot alive within the recreation of the Heart-Left. “We managed to lose to Kasselakis” a celebration government was heard to say. Sure, however Kasselakis moved far under the expectations and hype he had created. And, in any case, the election didn’t produce a dominant social gathering on the Heart Left. SYRIZA and PaSoK have a distinction of two factors. Principally, identical boat, identical waters.

Mr. Androulakis, as all the things reveals, just isn’t going to be confronted with a entrance of direct problem, as some pre-election situations wished. He will probably be criticized and can hear complaints. Just like the one which manifests itself on the base of PaSoK. There was an expectation of a greater outcome, a determine within the 14% zone. The PaSoK seems, within the measurements, to have virtually the identical pool of votes because the ND. Over 40% of respondents say they might vote for it. How come he cannot recover from himself? Is not Nikos Androulakis chargeable for this?

The paradox of a “black gap”

Let’s go, now, to the nice black gap of PaSoK. It’s Attica. All of the area’s earnings are swallowed up, primarily, by the Basin. The paradox now. PaSoK is exhibiting electoral decline within the areas of Attica the place its most outstanding executives, who even have management ambitions, are elected. How is that this defined? Is it a management subject? And why is management “a problem” in Attica and Thessaloniki and never within the 2 prefectures the place PaSoK got here first and within the greater than 20 areas the place it got here second, even with percentages that reached 20%?

The main figures usually are not disregarded of the sphere of criticism exercised by the bottom of PaSoK. However they can’t be offered as an “inner enemy”. The narrative that some individuals had Androulakis’ assertion of problem prepared, tried to create a local weather of introversion and that is accountable for the efficiency of PaSoK, is the worst that may exist in the intervening time. Not as a result of it ignites tensions however as a result of it’s handy. It is different individuals’s fault.

The glass half full

“So as a result of the batch was saved we are going to proceed the identical?” This was the response of a PASOK government to my statement in regards to the percentages of others. It’s apparent that nothing within the PSOC can stay the identical. Nikos Androulakis, it is just a matter of time, will take initiatives for the centre-left area. It might be good, nevertheless, to take a look at his home first. He does not have to search for magical options. The president of PaSoK is a realistic politician. He is aware of his benefits in addition to his disadvantages. And from his love for basketball he’ll know that the weaknesses of the captain are coated by the crew. He ought to, in some unspecified time in the future, present her.

In some unspecified time in the future, that institutional social gathering can even have to seem. The organs of the PASOK are underfunctioning, they’ve met just a few instances and their multi-person composition makes the conferences, from one level onward, pure inconvenience. It’s apparent that the reconstruction of Harilaou Trikoupi and the creation of a versatile political heart, with individuals from all sides, which is able to take over the day-to-day administration, is pressing.

The trail to the nationwide elections and earlier than that to the brand new inner social gathering chief election course of won’t be simple in any respect for the PASoK management. The captain’s capability to “make but additionally distribute the sport” will play a decisive function on this course of.