“If a smoker is not one who has not been a member of parliament for 40 years or a minister for 20 years, then Andreas Papandreou, with smokeless people of that time, made a movement, a party of power, with a huge subversive force. However, they were not smoke-free from society, they were fighters of everyday life, of the Polytechnic, of 1-1-4, smoke-free from positions of power. Yes, I am not a Member of Parliament for 40 years, I am not a Minister for 20 years, I have an 8-year term in the European Parliament, but beyond these 8 years I am a person who believes in politics as a solution, that it is an effort, an offer, that it is not needed to be screwed into chairs “, said the candidate for the leadership of the Movement for Change, Nikos Androulakis in an interview on Action 24 television, answering a question by G. Pierros about the characterizations given to him by Mr. Papandreou.
Regarding a relevant statement by Mr. Papandreou, Mr. Androulakis stressed that “Mr. Mitsotakis is having a party because he has SYRIZA and Mr. Tsipras as his opponents. The party is over, PASOK is back. We come as a strong, social democratic force to have an alternative country. Mr. Mitsotakis’s party has ended and ends next Sunday with the seal of the 270,000 progressive citizens who came and honored us. So I call on them to come again, I want mass participation from those who voted for me and those who did not vote for me, to make our party proud and strong together the next day. “Mr. Mitsotakis will face us in society.”
He himself explained his choice to hold a different attitude in relation to the characterizations that are formulated: “I am not going to enter into any characterization, I know very well the mistakes of the old protagonists. For me, the section will be a very big legacy left behind by Fofi Gennimata. “I will keep her as the apple of my eye if I am given the opportunity as president”, added Mr. Androulakis.
Regarding the former prime minister’s accusations that he does not know his political positions, Mr. Androulakis stressed that “if 300,000 have voted for me in two European elections and 170,000 in our internal party elections without knowing my positions, he is saying that I am a magician. It is not possible for hundreds of thousands of people all over Greece to vote for me within the party and in the European elections and not know my positions “.
“I am not going to enter the field of tension, I will not make the mistakes of the past again, I want the Party united. The faction was divided and the only ones who won were Tsipras, Mitsotakis and Samaras. The faction must be united “, he clarified.
Asked by the journalist about the characterization “new Tsipras”, Mr. Androulakis stressed that we are talking about two completely different paths. “Mr. Tsipras became president of his party while he was a municipal councilor in Athens. I have gone down to a nationwide ballot box twice. He also became president of his party as a choice of leadership. Mr. Tsipras took the ring. Have I got any rings? “I fight every day, door to door, house to house all over Greece, with our comrades, our friends, our competitors, who are fighting to bring a new generation to the forefront”, added Mr. Androulakis.
“I was not given anything, I won it with a daily, political struggle. In a clean way, without customer behaviors, demagoguery, populism. Was that Mr. Tsipras? Did he become prime minister, did he kill the client state? Did not suit people? Did not divide the people? Was he not one of the dominant populists? What does all this have to do with me? Even my ideological compass belongs to the family of European social democracy. We are in the Socialists and Democrats, Mr. Tsipras is in the European Left. “We are other parties, other ideologies and obviously different attitudes,” he concluded.
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