We are trying to create conditions for a new credible relationship with the Greek people, said the president of PASOK
“I believe that the good of Greece is to have a social democratic government. Social democratic government means respect for institutions, for quality democracy. People are tired of the client state. People are tired of ND and SYRIZA competing for who has the most converts, 2,800 each and 3,200 the other. The toxic climate in Parliament is boring. They are constantly divisive about universities, about human rights, about national issues. “We are a force for progress and realism, which wants to build unity,” he said the president of PASOK-Movement for Change, Nikos Androulakisspeaking last night on ANT1.
“We are other parties. Another is the party of the Communist Left, another is the party of the European Social Democrats, another is the neo-liberal party of the European Right. What do I say to the Greek people? You have three options at the table. Select. Do you want Mr. Tsipras as Prime Minister? Do you want Mr. Mitsotakis as Prime Minister? You do not want either? Do you want to give us a chance to form a social democratic government? Anyone who wants Mr. Tsipras to be prime minister should vote for SYRIZA.
Whoever wants Mr. Mitsotakis as prime minister, to vote for ND. Not us. Things are very simple. We are trying to create conditions for a new credible relationship with the Greek people. And it is a personal bet of mine: To prove that politics, through my personal path, gives solutions and is not a class of corruption, whose only interest is the chair. So, I work together for chairs, there is no case.
I believe that the social democratic ideas are more useful for Greece and Europe than the ideas of Mr. Mitsotakis and Mr. Tsipras. I speak with specific sentences, but I do not hear programmatic speech, but imitations. “Since Mr. Tsipras considers that he should be the prime minister whose party will be the first, let him co-govern with Mr. Mitsotakis, let him make him prime minister”, Mr. Androulakis underlined regarding the discussion about post-election cooperation.
“I nominated last summer not to become a traffic warden between ND and SYRIZA. I was a candidate to star in PASOK-Movement for Change. I ran because I want this party to change page in the place and I believe I can do it. I want us to become a force again that will play a governmental role, will be a protagonist, will make a social democratic government. I say to all citizens that:
I have a duty and duty to be ready and I will be ready “commented Mr. Androulakis about the leading role that the Movement aspires to play and added:” For me, a good Prime Minister is the one who knows what is happening in the world. So, knowing the international developments, he knows how to seize the opportunities for his homeland and avoid evils. Also a good Prime Minister is the one who does not govern with his company as we learned with Mr. Tsipras and Mr. Mitsotakis, but governs in an open, institutional way, with participatory democracy. A good Prime Minister is one who has no dependencies and has above all the public interest. “I am ready to clash with any established small or large that keeps my homeland trapped in the past.”
Turkish provocation
You are invited to comment on escalating Turkish provocation, Mr. Androulakis pointed out that “in the face of his thirst to hold the chair of power, Recep Tayyip Erdogan will do everything. It will instrumentalize the refugee, the desire of Finland and Sweden to join NATO, the issues concerning the Cyprus issue and human rights inside Turkey. It will instrumentalize the war in Ukraine. We must not allow Mr. Erdogan to blackmail Greece and the whole of Europe, “he said, stressing his proposal for an arms embargo from European countries on neighboring countries and targeted sanctions on Erdogan’s government officials and Turkish businessmen who support him. status.
“If Mr. Mitsotakis wants consensus on national issues, there must be conciliation in the foreground and not what happened the day before yesterday. It is a disgrace for the Greek Prime Minister to be informed by the Chancellor of Germany and the Secretary of Defense of the United States of what he intends to do. That’s unthinkable! ” stressed the President of PASOK-Movement for Change regarding the sending of new weapons to Ukraine. “European states can not be divided into good and bad. Friendly to Russia or towards Russia. “There must be a common strategy, so whatever weapons we send from now on to Ukraine to be done with a common European mechanism,” said Mr. Androulakis.
Regarding the finances of the Movement, Mr. Androulakis stated: “I became the secretary of PASOK, PASOK MEP and president of PASOK and I do not know what appointment to the State means. I have never appointed anyone anywhere. I have never made any money in my life. From the debts of PASOK, I have not charged the Greek people a single euro. PASOK has been borrowing for 12 years. All PASOK loans are before the financial crisis. From the financial crisis until today he has not taken a single euro loan. As Secretary and President, I have not taken a single euro loan. PASOK’s debts are 100 million real capital and all the rest are interest. I had promised before the elections that I would fight to settle our debts and show that even though my generation has not done so, it takes the burden to settle them and a large part of our funding goes to the banks so that we are okay with it. to the Greek people. Today, from your show, I tell you that we have regulated the loans with purchase criteria without special categories “.
Responding to the occasional statements of SYRIZA executives about PASOK finances, Mr. Androulakis stated emphatically that “they can invite Mr. Ragousis and Mrs. Xenogiannakopoulou, who were PASOK secretaries at the time, for coffee in Koumoundourou. During their time, these large loans have been made. They know better how to inform the public, Mr. Tsipras and Mr. Polakis. And I say this to be clear. If some people think that because they left PASOK, attitudes and responsibilities are erased and they are charged to me who was in trouble and I have not charged a single euro to the Greek people, who was never a client of the client state with my generation, who really fight to resurrect and regenerate the faction of Andreas Papandreou, who some use his name now when he is in the party of those who went to imprison him, with a little shame, Mr. Hatzinikolaou “.
The president of PASOK – Movement for Change repeated the invitation to unity and coexistence with democratic citizens. “Obviously citizens can change parties. Many of them were disappointed when they saw regime attitudes, customer networks, failed political choices, new inequalities, and sought to find hope elsewhere. Whether they found her now or not is another matter. So I tell these people that the door is open to a new beginning, that we make with young people, with credibility, to rebuild our common future together. But beware, no – and I said that in my own speech – with those who behaved in an unacceptable way in the party. People who said that Tsipras is the most dishonest Prime Minister of the post-colonial era and a year later he was a first-class SYRIZA executive. They said that the biggest fraud of the coup is, after all, the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks government. “SYRIZA MPs today, next to Mr. Tsipras” said Mr. Androulakis.
Mr. Androulakis reiterated the proposal of PASOK-Movement for the imposition of a ceiling on the retail price of electricity and stigmatized the way of taxing the super profits of energy companies instituted by the government.
