From Sparta, the President of PASOK-Movement for Change, Nikos Androulakis, responded to the attacks of the last few days by saying that he supports what he has been saying since the first day of his election and that he is saying the same thing today. “For the collaborations, for the big changes that need to be made, for how to build a new relationship of trust between the political system and the citizen, and especially with the new generation that is turning its back on politics. Exactly the same,” he said. put against the entanglement that supports K. Mitsotakis.

“But what has changed in the last few days and the same words, the same view, have caused the dispute to be at a standstill? The standoff is at a standstill, because it knows very well that the Greek people now show zero tolerance for the Mitsotakis system, which they do not respect institutions, that does not respect human rights, that despises common sense. A system of power that taught them to have as a priority to serve the interests of the oligarchy and not the interests of the people. We, therefore, have a debt: In the next national elections for this system of power of Mr. Mitsotakis to become a thing of the past. It is the duty of the democratic faction”, stressed Nikos Androulakis.

“On the one hand, it is the reason for progress, truth, common sense, dignity, public interest. And on the other hand, they are two power systems that are capable of doing anything and saying anything just for the chair. So far, with the system of power of Mr. Tsipras and the system of power of Mr. Mitsotakis,” underlined Mr. Androulakis, setting what he believed to be the political stakes of the elections.

He responded to the complaints of government officials regarding the alleged unconstitutional stance of PASOK-Movement for Change. “How did the current government respect the Constitution, which claimed that it came to confront the wickedness of the SYRIZA-ANEL government? On the issue of wiretapping, which exposed the country to the world? To watch the leader of the third party, the leaders of the Armed Forces, their ministers. Where was this heard again? But this is what PASOK and Andreas Papandreou fought for: For Democracy, for national pride, for respect for human rights, for the rule of law. That is what all the leaderships of the democratic faction fought for. And what does the domestic oligarchy ask of us? Tolerate all these phenomena of decadence? And to take the mandate – which the Constitution gives me the right to have in my hands – and to propose as Prime Minister one of the protagonists of the discredit? They probably don’t know our history well, they don’t know our principles well, they don’t know our values ​​well. So, to the vertigo of the entanglement, we respond with a clear message, today here from Sparta, from the Peloponnese: On the night of the next national elections, PASOK will guarantee the new change, the change of social dignity, the change of social justice”.

“There is no unknown Prime Minister X” argued Mr. Androulakis and added: “If we were to say the name of a candidate for Prime Minister, then we would be disregarding the popular verdict. Just as the government program is a product of programmatic convergences, so the persons in critical Ministries and of course the Prime Minister must express this program”.

The president of PASOK KINAL noted that he is not fighting for power and what he said about cooperation governments, he said because he sees what is happening in other European countries, where respect for institutions, for the citizen, for the public interest prevails. “Where there is no impunity of the oligarchy and the political establishment, which is intertwined with it” he explained of the cooperation governments.

“The social democracy of 2023 does not want a “father” state, it does not want a state that is the spoils of the respective rulers, it wants a state that guarantees the public interest, a state that will be able to defend the interests of all of you. A state that prioritizes its services by honoring each individual citizen” added the President of PASOK-Movement for Change.

Regarding the reappearance of Giorgos Karatzaferis, Mr. Androulakis said: “We saw the supposedly liberal Prime Minister, Mr. Mitsotakis, walking hand in hand with Karatzaferis. He had his political children in the most critical ministries, now he embraced Karatzaferis. I am also sending him a clear message from here: The attacks of the far-right skeletons of New Democracy are an honor for every democrat and every democrat, just as the attacks of Kammenos, the far-right partner of Mr. Tsipras, were also an honor. This is history of the Democratic Party. We will stand in the way of the Greek people seeing these far-right skeletons at the helm of the government again, who think that PASOK will become a tool in their power games. PASOK is back as a protagonist, the PASOK of Andreas Papandreou, the PASOK of popular struggles, the PASOK of Democracy, national dignity and social justice in the next national elections together with all of you will be on the winning side and on the night of the elections it suggests the path of the great changes that the strong homeland of the future needs”.

Referring to the tragic railway accident, he emphasized: “In 2019, shortly before he became Prime Minister, he held an event where he accurately analyzed the decline of the country’s railway network. In 2020 and 2022 in two consecutive reports of the European Railway Organization it is described that Greece has the most dangerous network in all of Europe per kilometer. We pointed out to the Parliament that on October 4, 2021, the Transparency Authority sends to the competent minister, Mr. Karamanlis, a file that identifies what corruption exists and that the 717 contract signed in 2014, which was supposed to be completed under SYRIZA in 2016 and has not been completed until today.

Our MPs asked Mr. Karamanlis in Parliament: “But when the official authority sends you a file with all the corruption that exists in the OSE and your ministry, and does not allow this work to be done that will protect the Greek people, you what did you do; Did you send the file to the prosecutor? His response was that ”I did not know that information”. Where will the contempt for the intelligence of the Greek people go?”

He characterized the privatization of TRAINOSE as a failure and added that “the SYRIZA leaders, who sold TRAINOSE for 45 million euros, have the audacity to talk about a successful privatization, while criticizing the offer of 300 million euros a few years ago. This is populism, which they want to bring back. No, he should not come back, that’s why we are fighting for Mr. Mitsotakis to leave power, but obviously not for Mr. Tsipras to come back.”

Analyzing the economic program of PASOK-Movement of Change, Mr. Androulakis underlined: “An unfair tax system cannot continue to exist, and the labor rights of employees cannot be undermined. Loans from the Recovery Fund can’t just go to 68 strong. 1.2 billion euros with a 1.1% interest rate and small and medium-sized enterprises are in a real difficult situation, not being able to obtain liquidity from the banks”.