“We’re not just asking for elections,” PASOK’s president said
“It is a social requirement and a national need for Greece to change course as quickly as possible,” says PASOK Change President Nikos Androulakis In an interview with the Macedonia newspaper.
The president of the PASOK-Main of Change notes that “there is an alternative to the country’s governance, with a processed programmatic framework, a progressive direction and a new political morality”, to emphasize that “we are not simply calling for elections; we call on the citizens at the same time to trust a new page.”
It states that a request for elections marks the culmination of the party’s opposition strategy, which after the initiatives in and out of the House and the formation and presentation of the PASOK government program, “is the natural consequence of a coordinated political process that we follow.”
Mr Androulakis stresses that the political change that is envisioned “is in opposition to government policies involving inequalities, degradation of the quality of democracy and a precarious position in the country in a cruel geopolitical environment”. “We want a Greece that invests in education, health and social welfare by creating equal opportunities for citizens. A Greece for everyone, “he says.
As to why people give PASOK first, they reply that it has a “reliable and elaborate” plan and that “against the value of the New Democracy, PASOK carries a bright path of hope for every citizen”. In a question about the timing of the implementation of the PASOK government plan, he replies that “our vision for the country lays the groundwork for strong Greece in 2030”, while commenting that “we are not limited to fragmentary measures with the eye to polls, as the government does” but ” It refers to the five national priorities in PASOK’s plan, stressing that “with these measurable goals, we are shaping a holistic plan for the reconstruction of our country”. Regarding ND’s criticism of the costing of the PASOK program, he comments that it was “completely predictable” and that “it looks absolutely panic”. Among other things, PASOK’s plan “is comparable to the cost of measures already announced by the government for 2026 and 2027, which are approaching 2.5 billion euros. The big difference, however, is that our programming framework was not compiled by consultants and communication companies, but society itself. “
Mr Androulakis argues that people need a different model of governance: “We do not just need a new power manager; we need generous change, political, moral and value – and I can serve it without any commitment to oligarchy, because I do not” just “.
Asked who could sit on the same table for the alternative progressive governance he describes, he notes that “with PASOK, the country has not only serious opposition, but also the credible choice for the next progressive government” and that “we are the guarantors of the politician”. “But because the progressive world has been disproved in the last ten years, we have to be very serious and invest in credibility. Everything in the light, “he says, explaining that this means that” what we say in our programming positions as an opposition, we do so as a government “and this” without discounts and compromises “on critical issues that are the concern of society, as he points out. “Beyond that, there is the reason the people, who will shape the final correlations,” he adds.
He argues that “the New Democracy is the government of missed opportunities” and that “its failure is visible in the daily lives of citizens: the quality of the institutions recedes, the incomes are exterminated by accuracy and cartels, while the public health and education system does not meet the needs of citizens. The winners are few and powerful … “.
As to whether he believes that with government policy, the country is leading to a new crisis that may bring new memorandums, comments: “Let us not forget that the New Democracy has re -established the country on the rocks.” It states that the current state of the economy remains dependent on consumption, with a large and persistent trade deficit and deficit in the current account balance. “The funds of the recovery fund were either allocated to low -value -added projects or resulted in a few strong interests. Potential GDP is projected to increase only 1% in the next decade – the most frustrating failure of the government. That is why it takes, as quickly as possible, a change of course, “he says.
“Development for us means real productive investments, not speculation in real estate”, “Greece is not sold. Mitsotakis’ choices made us strangers in our country, “he says elsewhere in his interview.
Asked, among other things, about Turkey, he says that the dialogue must be conducted, but without illusions and “the European Union cannot be tolerance for Turkish revisionism, nor much more, display Mr Erdogan as an equal partner in his new defense architecture”. “We are talking about the leader of a country holding part of the Member State of Cyprus, and threatens Greece with Casus Belli. Well, no! Our position is clear: No Turkey’s participation in European defense, “he says.
Nikos Androulakis emphasizes that “PASOK has proven what national strategy means” and wonders “where is the” courageous foreign policy “that the government advertises”: “in the maritime spatial planning that came after the EU court? In marine parks that are engraved only in areas that do not bother Ankara? In the submarine cable with Cyprus that is not going? Or on the maritime plots announced with chronic delay, on the bases we have set since 2011? “