With a post on her Facebook account, Elena Akrita responds to the statement of the former speaker of the Parliament, Apostolos Kaklamanis about the absence of her mother, Sylva, from the party’s 50th anniversary event.
In a statement by the PASOK Press Office, it is underlined that Mr. Kaklamanis personally undertook to look for her, stating that “if for this misunderstanding, there is responsibility, it obviously belongs to me”.
The PASoK announcement in detail:
“Regarding the alleged exclusion of Mrs. Sylvas Akrita from the ceremony of honoring those of us who are still alive from the 150 founding members of PASOK, the truth is as follows:
The office of the President of PASOK, Nikos Androulakis, tried unsuccessfully for several days to contact Mrs. Sylva Akrita on her home phones. Following this, I took it upon myself to look for her through the SYRIZA Member of Parliament Mrs. Elena Akrita, thinking that reasons of political decency dictated it. I couldn’t do it on two of her phones – one of them didn’t even work.
At the same time, I tried through five (5) phones that were registered from the past in my office and succeeded in one of them to talk to Mrs. Sylva Akrita and inform her about the decision of PASOK. It should be noted that, as she told me, she was away from her home for a week.
Following this, the PASOK office tried, but it was not possible to contact her, on the phones she had in mind.
If there is any responsibility for this misunderstanding, it obviously belongs to me.
However, this does not allow, I think, what Mrs. Elena Akrita mentions personally and about the President of PASOK who unwittingly, I hope, allows various anti-PASOK people to rant against him and against PASOK to which we and her mother still belong me too.
Apostolos Ch. Kaklamanis”
Elena Akrita’s answer
The journalist and SYRIZA MP, Elena Akrita, questions in her publication the attempts to communicate with her mother, stressing that “it is indulgently problematic – if not a joke – to say that PASOK failed to contact Sylva Akrita, when she has had the same phone numbers for 30 years.”
He goes on to say: “You called me, you say, and you didn’t find me?” And why didn’t you or your office leave a message for me to call you right away? I would be very happy to do so.
How did you easily contact my mother, while the PASOK offices were allegedly looking for her for so many days?
Sincerely, Mr. President, hand on heart. Did you ever tell her about the event at Zappeion? Or did you talk to her generally and vaguely about a possible future event (without date and place) to honor its historical staff?
You write: “If there is any responsibility for this misunderstanding, it obviously belongs to me.”
You are not responsible, dear Mr. Kaklamanis. Others are responsible. You know it, as we do. For the record, Sylva Akrita withdrew from active political activity during the prime ministership of Simitis. If this tells you something.
You have warm greetings from your friend Sylva.”
Sylva Akrita’s comment
Below Elena Akrita’s post, her mother Sylva stresses:
“COME NOW MISSION! EH, NO AND YOU! … (a propos apart from the others, I specifically said that all week I was constantly in my room next to the phone, which remains the same, here and decades). These few from our long phone conversation! Surprisingly my memory remains intact, which may not always be pleasant for some! you might guess. With much love I greet you and close this unpleasant matter.”
It is recalled that earlier, with her post, Sylva Akrita recalled some events, “just for the record” as she pointed out.
After pointing out that she was a founding member of PaSoK and also the only female member of parliament in the party’s first 12-member parliamentary group, she indicated that she could feel bitter that she was not invited to the “fiesta of 50 years”. “And I keep my brakes and after all I’m still alive” he says.
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