In a nervous crisis status the PASOK Because of the … stuck needle in pollsbut also the refusal of leadership to play open game inside the party. Top executives, one after another, send warning arrows to Harilaou Trikoupias the environment is going to become even more competitive with the emergence of new players on the political horizon since the beginning of the new year.
By one they see the New Democracy to record in the seventh year of governance significant wear, on the other hand Alexis Tsipras Warm his return and mix the deck to the center -left and in the middle of PASOK with the needle almost glued to the gallop.
Executives in Greece are wondering how PASOK, despite approaching the steps of high -digit rates twice, then precipitated on the demiginal scale: after December 2021 and the election Androulakis He ran speeds and percentages, but took the descent the following year, as his leadership began discussing post -election scenarios, giving public differences.
The same thing happened with Androulakis’ re -election last year, which was followed by a poll eject in November and Backup with the new year, when Zoe Konstantopoulou with the backdrop of big rallies for Tempi began to flirt with second place. Now PASOK is again a purely second party, but far from the strong (up to 16 percentage points, depending on the political company) the lead of the New Democracy.
His programmatic presence at this year’s TIF was characterized by all executives a good restart basis, but as long as the … needle remains unarmed, forecasts for the risk of disintegrating forces in the final line to the elections are enhanced. Therefore and with the public intervention-prolongation of Paul Geroulanou PASOK’s scattered forces in Greece seemed to agree, even those that last October supported another leadership candidate.
“The needle may not move, but the universe has been shaken in PASOK, When Gerulan spoke out of our teeth at our party event in Aridea And he simply said what we are discussing in the organizations from the north to the south, “says an experienced executive who has a good picture of the climate inside the party every time.
Mr. Geroulanos gave Harilaou Trikoupi two months to move the needleconsidering that if this does not happen (at the latest by Christmas), developments can overtake PASOK and its declared electoral goals. It is obvious that PASOK’s parliamentary spokesman is no longer intended to silence, on the contrary, he has said that he will … shoot Harilaou Trikoupis with objections and suggestions for the next day, refusing implications and possible allegations of introversion.
He believes that there are various electoral audiences waiting to hear from PASOK persuasive voices to describe the solutions to their problems, but, as he explained in his speech that surprised Harilaou Trikoupi: “Unfortunately we have too much time. If the needle does not move in the next two months, we will have trouble moving it until the election. Now is the time. The public is huge, waiting for us. And we have to do it now. Within this context, I’m here. “
“Here” states and Harris Dukebut also the Anna Diamantopoulouthe other two candidates for leadership, two people with different routes who want to reinforce their influence on the intra -party field. The mayor of Athens wants to express the audience who saw more than positive the rehearsal of the cooperation of the center -left forces for his election, and the head of PASOK’s political planning will undoubtedly support her positions on the pages that they usually read. As a result, the Duke -Diamantopoulou dialogue at Art Athina 2025 in Zappeion was not accidental. “We are PASOK’s two souls,” he said, to answer him, “Do you want to be one?”
The 2+1 PASOK Souls They may disagree in several places or do not have good chemistry with each other -of course everyone was impressed that Ms. Diamantopoulou supported Mr Doukas in his fight with the three ministers on Queen Olga -but appear to agree at least two points: the first is that they are all about three Red card to Mr. Androulakis for the absence of regular party institutions, where leadership and leadership team are usually strategic.
Instead, they are informed retrospectively of decisions taken by his close staff. In fact, in recent months it does not meet and the Political centerappointed by the PASOK leader by replacing the elected political council (the last meeting was held the day after the European elections in a conflict).
Geroulanos is pushing on the throttle
With the phrase Androulakis that PASOK should press the throttle and shake off the introversion, Mr. Geroulanos intends to turn around and open his opinion openly. “No executive can be silent,” he said last Thursday night invited to Action24, repeating the needle, while A few hours earlier than OPEN O Mr. Androulakis He had argued that the comments from the parliamentary spokesman (as well as Mrs. Diamantopoulou for Karystianou) are not in the right direction as they interrupt PASOK’s attempt to highlight the program he himself described as “Gospel”.
Reports say Mr Geroulanos will insist on “no” at a conference-Fiesta promoting a conference of challenge of leadership after attempting to open the political debate by submitting a political platform.
Its basis is the seven proposals (and their specialization) submitted during last year’s intra -party election, including: the creation of a “patriotic, anthropocentric, modern, socialist, democratic and associated” community “party, Frustrated progressive voters Mitsotakis ยป.
He has already suggested a “clean register of members and friends” and “election of the bodies from the basis and nomination of candidates also from the base”, while among the seven proposals stands out for a “leadership that unites”, so he does not exclude executives, and provides in the statutory procedure for any body. It closes with the proposal for a “major political initiative to progressive voters for bilateral enlargement”.
The Duke Conference
The relationship of Mrs Doukas – Androulakis has gone through many waves, and the ice is probably unchanged by the intra -party battle for the election of leadership. THE mayor of Athens And a member of the Coordinating Political Center is now telling his interlocutors that “no one is questioning the president” and that “it is a big mistake to create destabilization conditions – but when the critical dilemmas are ready to be ready to provide specific answers and to have collective and collective positions.”
Prior to the … Geroulanou needle, it publicly applied for an open conference – it will take place in the last ten days of November – and a decision to exclude post -election government cooperation with the New Democracy.
Indeed, on Friday night, Mr Doukas took the initiative to renew the telephone search with about 100 PASOK executives (members of the Central Committee, Prefectural Organizations and some MPs) on the next steps in the party to the Congress and the Elections.
He is in line with many “green” executives from Greece and some MPs who agree that PASOK must repel with a strong voice the views of coalition with the New Democracy in order not to need second and third elections.
It intends to potentially cause PASOK’s political and ideological stigma votes to reunite the reunification of the center -left forces with the party. He does not look, as some accuse him of the Tsipras scenario and to throw bridges, nor does he believe that PASOK no longer has the ability to form a strong progressive model of governance, as long as a brave opening is made in time to these forces, with the starting point.
Diamantopoulou against populism
It was probably the first time in the 12 months that Mr. Androulakis kept distances from public intervention by the head of political planning, however The point of her speech in Kilkis, that “PASOK will not become Karystianou or Konstantopoulou”she caused numerous people reactions to PASOK, to the point where she had to correct her phrases to explain what she considers populism and what not. “We now have the responsibility not to become Karystianou, nor to become Constantopoulou.
We had the responsibility to bring the issues to the House, to provide all the details, to demand answers, “he said in a party meeting in Kozani, when the party official argued that PASOK did not support Maria Karystianou’s latest moves.
With her intervention, she was openly opposed to SYRIZA’s tactics, while stressing that PASOK’s role is to maintain a balance in the political system by preventing populist practices. The leadership, however, addressed Ms. Diamantopoulou, recommended “respect for the relatives of the victims”.
Also, executives against Diamantopoulou estimate that with this rhetoric PASOK will be permanently cut off from the center -left forces of society, some of which have fled into the rallies for Tempi and listening carefully to the demands of the victims’ relatives. There are others, however, insisting on the line that Mrs Diamantopoulou is drawn, calling on the leadership to take a clear position in favor of “the tendency that PASOK wants to guarantee political tranquility in the place and the promotion of reforms”.
The debate on the right or left compass in PASOK will open, as expected, his think tank Philip Sachinidisof the former Minister and current member of the Political Council who has strongly attacked the leadership for the operation of the party from the day after the European elections. It is a matter of days to present the Think Tank research on what is progressive today, which will de facto create a new cycle of discussions, first, inside PASOK and with the background of Tsipras.
Harilaou Trikoupi sounds that they will accelerate the pace for the conference in November, while officials from Mr Androulakis’ key interlocutors are downgrading scenarios of deletions of the challengers, although there were two suggestions for “drastic solutions”.
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