Spikes against her leadership of PASOK left by Anna Diamantopoulou and Pavlos Geroulanos, as Charilaou Trikoupis is still dealing with the “one day” director Giorgos Papavasileiou, but also with the “empty chair” of Nikos Androulakis at the funeral of Dionysis Savvopoulos.
Although the polling damage to the main opposition party has not yet been recorded, Anna Diamantopoulou emphasized speaking to Sky that “in addition to a program, PASOK must acquire a strong narrative and a strong leadership team (next to the leadership) that can highlight it”, while adding:
“He is a strong leader, he was elected twice. I won’t go out of my way, there are issues with his image, but the image of the captain is a very overall issue. When there is a constant attack on the leader, when internally we do not have peace – it does not mean that we will always agree with each other, but that is how it has always been in PASOK. I want to remind you that PASOK had organizations that had Marx and organizations that had Venizelos”, says Mrs. Diamantopoulou and adds, among other things, that: “There is an elected leader, with him we must go to the elections. No one is perfect, let’s fix the problems and not make attacks. And to finally agree on a very clear political line, in every direction, with political arguments. PASOK will not become the SYRIZA of the opposition with shouts and insults.”
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Mrs. Diamantopoulou once again stood in favor of PASOK’s autonomous course towards the elections: “Shall we talk with Mr. Tsipras, with SYRIZA with the many splits of SYRIZA? Yes, we will talk to everyone. Shall we work together? Shall we sit at the table and make a joint line-up? No. PASOK never did this. The Center Union and SYRIZA did it and we saw the results. PASOK is an autonomous party, with an ideology, with a history, with executives with one goal: Enlargement,” said the top PASOK official, adding that there could be joint initiatives in Parliament between parties.
Gerulanos: Mistakes will always be made
“Perhaps it was a mistake that the chair (of Nikos Androulakis) was left empty in funeral of Dionysis Savvopoulos said on Thursday morning Pavlos Geroulanos speaking to Sky to add that in any case the PASOK represented at the funeral.”
In this context, he added that “mistakes will always be made in politics, these mistakes should not immobilize the executives whose job it is to come forward and talk about PASOK”.
Answering a question about the gallop, Mr. Geroulanos said “most of the people are at home, if you count the abstention three PASOK are at home, our job is to mobilize this people. The work has begun and this will culminate with a conference that will show that PASOK is here”
Finally, when asked about the different opinions of PASOK executives, he reassuringly replied that “a party in our political space is a synthesis party, different opinions will be heard and that does not scare me at all, the confrontations do not worry me, our party cannot not have spikes. The point is that we should all be ready to fight for the common good, and I don’t see anyone going in another direction.”