The President of PASOK-Change Movement spoke tonight in Sitia, Nikos Androulakis. “Mr. Mitsotakis had built a dragon before the elections: “Instability, vote for me, Tsipras is coming”. And he won the elections with 20 points, while we know very well that he accumulated problems for the Greek people. Now who is the new dragon? The program of PASOK, he says, is the same as the program of SYRIZA. I really want to tell every Greek man and every Greek woman here from Sitia that the only one that resembles the practices of SYRIZA, of Mr. Polakis, is New Democracy. This faction speaks specifically, that’s why I asked for our programs to be costed by the Budget Office of the Parliament so that every Greek can understand what we want to do and what New Democracy has already done. This is what Mr. Mitsotakis is trying to avoid by throwing the ball into the stands. They told us that we left the memorandums, the Greek economy is stabilizing, inequalities will decrease, children will have good jobs. What do the official figures say? Mr. Mitsotakis accumulated 50 billion new debt on our backs and on the backs of the next generations. It would, as promised, make the economy competitive. We had a 12% trade deficit in 2022 and we will have 9% this year,” Mr. Androulakis pointed out, debunking New Democracy’s claims regarding the identification of the PASOK-SYRIZA economic programs.

“If the agony of New Democracy is a thousand families in Greece, its agony PASOK there are millions of Greeks who want better days of social justice, dignity, hope and perspective. This is PASOK’s anxiety,” noted Mr. Androulakis regarding the priorities of the tax system implemented by the New Democracy Government.

“We saw the narrative again: “But, the people voted”. And in 2007 the people voted for Kostas Karamanlis and in 2009 Greece had a 15.5% external deficit and a year later it entered the memorandums. Is this what we want? Shouldn’t the power of the current government be criticized for its fiscal actions?” he added.

“Mr. Tsipras is not the only populist. The Greek people judged him both as a government and as an opposition. The new populist, imitating Mr. Tsipras, is Mr. Mitsotakis with the support of powerful interests. So that’s why we have a choice of dignity, hope and perspective on June 25. A strong PASOK means a strong opposition to the viciousness of the New Democracy system. A strong PASOK means that Mr. Mitsotakis will again find his real opponent in the Parliament, in the movements. The opponent of progress and reliability. He had fallen out with the SYRIZA opposition. Now things will enter a new path” he noted.

“For this reason, I ask the Greek people to acquire in the next four years the opposition, which will give them a real alternative choice. It is unthinkable to have “Patsis”, who buy the people’s loans. It is unthinkable to have widespread corruption phenomena. It is unthinkable that some people are not paying for the Tempe tragedy. It is unthinkable that bad loans have been handed over to the funds and that citizens, businesses and cooperatives are being blackmailed. It is unthinkable to have scandals in matters of institutions and democracy, such as wiretapping, and, instead of New Democracy’s percentages falling, it gets more. Your golden sponsor, Mr. Mitsotakis, is no longer here. Here is PASOK, here is the Democratic Party” concluded Mr. Androulakis.

Commenting on Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ aversion to representing the progressive faction, Mr. Androulakis meaningfully asked: “With Voridis?” With Georgiadis? With Pleuris? With Karatzaferis? The day before yesterday, Failos Kranidiotis also announced his support for Mr. Mitsotakis. This is not Center Left. This is not a Center. This is not Center Right. It’s far right. Mr. Mitsotakis, you represent the extreme right with the openings you have made in recent years.”