Pasok

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has turned his attention to moderate voters and is attempting to fashion a technocratic, “rational” image of his government.

Historic and well-known cadres are passing the torch to new ones, who will help the PASOK succeed in the future, after a dark decade of floundering for the historic party.

If a coalition government were to be formed, the most desirable partner for ND would be PASOK, whose new leader Nikos Androulakis has for now ruled out the prospect.

Although nobody denies that Greece had allowed dysfunctions to fester for years, the course of public debt and of deficits demonstrates that they skyrocketed in the 2004-2009 period [on Karamanlis’ watch].

SYRIZA is finding it difficult to pick up opposition speed and appears not to have fully understood the role of a main opposition party and can no longer pose past dilemmas.

Ten years ago, we witnessed a political upset. SYRIZA sufficiently chipped away at PASOK’s electoral base and became one of the two predominant poles of the Greek political system.

In democratic countries attempts to manufacture guilty parties do not go unpunished. Those responsible are held to account by the justice system.

There is a fortuitous confluence of events for the Movement for Change as it has become apparent that SYRIZA’s opening to the centre-left is a failure.

One cannot but agree that the manner in which certaing Pasok cadres moved to SYRIZA creates the impression that the PM is in panic

Andreas Papandreou is not remembered for crafting post-dictatorship politics, but rather because of the democratic achievements that it entailed, which were hardly a given at that time.

Those parties which were condemned by the government as constituting the “old” political system left their old bad habits behind, and the “new regime” copied all those habits in a bid to ensure its political survival.

Simitis has unwittingly been transformed into a symbol of resistance against all those who, armed with fake news and fetid propaganda, dream of becoming the Maduros or Erdogans of Greece.

Forty-four years ago today, in 1974, a politician who left his imprint on the post-dictatorship history of Greece, Andreas Papandreou, founded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok).

The objective of the reshuffle was to give the government a new momentum and to broaden SYRIZA’s political base ahead of the next general elections.

«Στρατηγική επιλογή μας είναι η πλήρης απασχόληση και η αξιοπρέπεια του εργαζόμενου και βασική μας προτεραιότητα είναι η δημιουργία νέων θέσεων εργασίας». Αυτό τόνισε, μεταξύ άλλων, η πρόεδρος του ΠΑΣΟΚ και επικεφαλής της Δημοκρατικής Συμπαράταξης Φώφη Γεννηματά, μιλώντας κατά τη διάρκεια εκδήλωσης που πραγματοποιήθηκε απόψε στην Πάτρα. Η Φώφη Γεννηματά έκανε εκτενή αναφορά σε εργασιακά […]