“We have never divided the people pre-election on such sensitive issues” said Nikos Androulakis in his greeting, during the inauguration of the offices of T.O. Minoa Pediados, in Arkalochori, completing his tour of areas of the regional unity of Heraklion.

“Why is Mitsotakis doing this now with Tsipras” asked N. Androulakis, adding in regards to the Rhodope issue and the dialogue regarding the briefing of Mr. Tsipras by Mr. Mitsotakis, “let both the one and the the other one week before the national elections and to inform the Greek people exactly what has happened”.

“Shame on Ms. Bakoyannis and Mr. Schertsos for speaking with the language of the ’50s and ’60s of the old right, in a Greek village in Rodopi. But on the other hand, the MPs of SYRIZA must make a public statement that they respect the Treaty of Lausanne as every Greek MP must respect it” said the president of PASOK-KINAL, noting that for the faction “the priority is to solve the problems and not to create them” but also to “unite and not divide the people”.

Referring to the earthquake that caused widespread destruction in the area of ​​Arkalochori, Mr. Androulakis, commenting on what has happened 20 months later, pointed out “where is the staff state? Even in the containers are our fellow citizens. This is the sensitivity, these are the priorities? And it’s not only happening here but also in other parts of the country, because quite simply there is no staff state. It is a company that tries to manage the country beyond the borders of the New Democracy. The group of Mr. Mitsotakis, this is centralization at the expense of any culture of collective governance in the country, that is why he despises public administration and local self-government, that is why they alone plan, alone implement in the interests of the few, because these they serve” said Mr. Androulakis.

“I ask Crete and all of Greece to give us a strong mandate, to be the strong progressive opposition that the Greek people need, against conservation, against populism, against elitism” concluded Nikos Androulakis, speaking to a crowd of people who welcomed him with slogans and applause.

“It is important that PASOK, this democratic and patriotic movement, picks up the thread of history again, here from Crete. We proved that the Greek people want a progressive party to address their anxieties. A few years ago, some people considered the revival of PASOK impossible, but with the popular verdict we took a first step. I am sure that on June 25 even more dynamically, even more strongly, we will embrace the ordinary citizens and you can be sure that with our work, with our struggle against the New Democracy, we will be the strong progressive opposition, which will not allow the client state, the opacity, the worthlessness and the contempt of the Greek people continues, because this has been happening for the last few years” said the president of PASOK-KINAL, among other things, during his greeting.

Earlier, Nikos Androulakis, was in Viannos and laid a wreath at the Holocaust memorial, saying that “the faction’s permanent position is to continue the legal and political fight for the vindication of the country, in terms of German reparations”. Nikos Androulakis described the crimes against the Greek people during the years of Nazism as heinous and for the reparations he explained that the reason is not only economic but “above all it is moral and historical because if a people forgets its history, then unfortunately the fate brings them forward again”.