In … a battle position there are many executives of PASOK Awaiting today’s decision on its referral Katerina Batzeli In the discipline with the accusation of “infringement and censure in the face of the president”.
Top executives may currently avoid disclosing their disagreements with the leadership of the party following the party in various fields, but PASOK organizations across Greece are more and more often heard, heavy conversations exchanged by the “dissidents” with the presidential.
To Nikos Androulakis’ “hot episode” with Evangelia Liakoulisare added The attempt to exclude a party event in Thessaloniki by Haris Kastanidisthe departures of former Minister Socrates Xynidis and candidate MPs, the turmoil in other green offices and today’s discipline meeting with Harilaou Trikoupi’s request to decide a “sentence” against Katerina Batzeli.
Former Minister and current member of the Central Committee Speaking a few days ago on the Naftemporiki channel he said, among other things, “the comrades know that I will never give up PASOK” and that “if I am deleted or imposed any disciplinary penalty, if I am outside the Byzantine walls of Constantine, I will continue to do so.”
Ms Batzeli, coming to the meeting at 18:30 in the afternoon, will file a memorandum and explain that the “right -wing” did not concern the party’s president.
Polls are heavy and climate another
In the meantime, the “big picture” is becoming more and more gray, as most of the tables involved in MPs and executives are heard bad predictions about PASOK’s course, since “Harilaou Trikoupi failed to exploit the momentum of the dynamic re -entry”.
The last wave of polls He just came to confirm their fears and record PASOK’s declining course and in quality elements: At the younger ages aimed at, for example, he seems to be installed, while his popularity is settled. Nikos Androulakis He continues to “extinguish” and mark rates much lower than those of his party.
Messrs. Haris Doukas, Pavlos Geroulanos or Anna Diamantopoulou for a change of course? Well -known people say the mayor of Athens sent a signal to Harilaou Trikoupi, reacting to Mrs. Batzeli’s referral to disciplinary But it is not going to throw oil on the fire of intra-party tension and therefore be charged the submissitor’s sign- although it has accepted suggestions to take another step forward and resign from the political center if the “line” of leadership is the “deletion” of the former minister.
THE Paul Geroulan after the mini-cod for the same theme as Harry Dukehe turned to public resignations for PASOK’s increasingly substantial occupation with the problems facing citizens- he has generally avoided involvement in intra-party conflicts and any open conflict with leadership.
Duke and Geroulanos, as experienced executives note, it is difficult to ally in at least tense times with the aim of joining forces and increasing their field of intra -party influence. And Anna Diamantopouloueven if he has reservations about the functioning of the party, as a responsible for political planning, he can only continue to seek points of understanding with Mr. Androulakis.
The battle of the (next) cross
It is certain that MPs claiming their re -election and candidates (including several close associates of Mr Androulakis) preparing to go down to the national elections have begun to see that the degree of difficulty in achieving their staff is growing rapidly.
If PASOK permanently loses second place in the polls and slides in rates below the European elections, then those directly interested in their descent, such as in the regions of the basin, are required, if they do not chase elsewhere, they will finally be hunted. Paul Geroulan In the 1st Athens, with the Milena Apostolaki in northern Athens, with the Nadia Giannakopoulou In West Athens, with Pavlos Christidis In the south, with the Manolis Christodoulakis in East Attica.
In the basin it is heard that they may be descended in addition to the other candidates, close associates of the PASOK leader, such as the two Members of State. THE Dimitris Mantzos He thinks about the north of Athens, though he has, the impatient friends say, and the nets of his place of origin in Achaia, where the Papandreik element is still powerful- even his statement that “we in PASOK have to throw away the ball and not hold it with us” the other trends in the intra -party field. The other MP of State and man of N. Androulakis, Panagiotis Doudonis He may abandon his quest for the basin and convey his interest in the Lesvos constituency, where the current MP, P. Paraskevidis, maintains significant forces. THE Andreas Spyropoulosthe PASOK secretary seems to be claiming a seat in the northern Athens sector, where in 2023 Milena Apostolaki achieved a comfortable victory over Andreas Loverdos who then left PASOK.
In the southern sector, the descent of the press spokesman is heard, Kostas Tsoukalawhere he will re -claim a member of the Political Council and former Member of Parliament, Tonia Antoniou.
The fact that Nikos Androulakis kept his headquarters in Thessaloniki is not excluding the scenario from claiming his entry into Parliament for many years of the area of the area, Harris Kastanidisunless, as his political friends emphasize in a clear style, attempts to exclude him from leadership continue.
Mr Kastanidis, as well as other elected executives in the party’s political council, is estimated to activate the scenario to request the convening of the body, which has to meet in June 2024. “Democratic centralism” does not even attribute the KKE. Much more for parties with social democratic culture, “he points out Theodoris Margaritisalso elected member of the Political Council. Mr Margaritis, in his posting on social networks, hastened to say that he would also say in Harilaou Trikoupi, after the new wave of polls that it would be wrong to assess that PASOK’s downhill course is due to any intra -party “jigsaws”.
Executives who did not support the re -election of Mr. Androulakis and were on the side of Mr. DukeMr Geroulanou or other candidates are awaiting, according to his interlocutors, awaiting the flow of things after today’s EDEKAP meeting for Ms. Batzeli to be re -located on the intra -party chessboard. They also expect (and most importantly) some healthy political reaction initiatives by Harilaou Trikoupi in the new landscape. “We do not need more coordinators, but a field of dialogue, where all voices are heard before decisions in closed offices,” says an experienced executive, who does not hide his concern about PASOK’s course.