“From Achaia, the homeland of our founder, Andreas Papandreou, the homeland of the Old Man of democracy, we send a message of victory and rebirth of our movement. On June 25 the democratic faction will be the big winner, it will again be the genuine progressive strong opponent against the ND. On May 21st we took a first step. On June 25, we continue energetically for the second big step of victory and rebirth, for a movement that will embrace the people’s anxieties for social justice and national dignity.”

This was emphasized, among others, by the president of PASOK-KINAL, Nikos Androulakisstarting this evening his speech at an open political rally held on the pedestrian street of Agios Nikolaos, in the center of Patras.

As he added, “I call on every democrat and every progressive citizen, let’s all move forward together so that ND has a real opponent again and not its golden sponsor, Mr. Tsipras, a political opponent with a genuine progressive reason, with a specific program, who will guarantee respect for human rights, the rule of law, the social state, the separation of powers and sustainable development with benefits for all Greeks”.

“Against us, on June 25,” he continued, “we do not have the danger of anarchy, but we have the danger of the ND’s omnipotence, profligacy and arrogance.”

At the same time, Nikos Androulakis said that “the signs have been seen as to what the future of our country is with Mr. Mitsotakis”: “Discrediting the national health system, discrediting public education and burdening the middle class and the most vulnerable Greeks with extreme precision and indirect taxation”. The ND “treated the state like loot,” he said.

In another part of his speech, the president of PASOK-KINAL said that “in the last few days we have become spectators in an extreme divisive situation concerning Thrace. Sensitive issues are used by the ND to divide for petty party reasons, imitating to an absolute extent the practices of Mr. Kammenos and Mr. Tsipras. So let them both leave their dangerous adventures. We have seen dangerous pre-election adventures with the EYP’s newsletters. But things are very simple: It is not allowed for us to have a member of the Greek Parliament, a Greek Christian or a Greek Muslim, who does not respect the Treaty of Lausanne. We are not going to play Mr. Erdogan’s games.”

Referring to PASOK, he said that “it is the party that, with our founder Andreas Papandreou, broke down the bars of shame in Thrace in 1995, it is the movement that, with the Minister of Education, George Papandreou, made the law for Muslim citizens to study in Greek universities and not in Ankara and Constantinople, with the result that in 20 years the Muslim scientists of Thrace have increased fivefold”.

In fact, as he said, “this is the long-term work of PASOK which eradicated all kinds of discrimination in our country, whether political in 1981 or religious later, because it is the party that unites and strengthens the country and not the party that divides and divides it ».

Also, Nikos Androulakis said that “I want to send an answer to both Mr. Mitsotakis and Mr. Tsipras”, saying: “It is a shame, whatever mistakes our political opponents make, that some people talk about national exceptions. For us there are no national exceptions. The homeland is all the Greek people. We criticize the opponents with political culture, without dividing. It is a shame that in 2023, in a normal European country, some people are constantly talking about national exceptions, whether it is Mr. Tsipras with Mr. Kammenos, or it is Mr. Mitsotakis with his company.”

Speaking about the deadly train accident in Tempi, Nikos Androulakis emphasized that “someone must pay and will pay for our 57 fellow citizens who lost their lives unjustly”, adding: “They will be judged by justice and not by their electoral district, as implied by the communication systems of the ND”.

Speaking about the issues of the economy, the president of PASOK-KINAL stated that “the ND promises a 25% increase in private sector wages, but in the medium term that it submitted a few weeks ago to the European Commission, it is committed to increases of only 13%” .

“Their arrogance is such that the former Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr. Skylakakis, confessed the unreliability of the ND, saying that ‘we cannot put all our pre-election promises in the stability program.’ We know it, they did it in 2007 and we remember very well what your government delivered with Mr. Karamanlis. Mr. Mitsotakis is leading Greece on the same path. Because that’s populism with a tie.”

“That’s why we,” he emphasized, “are here with our program as a responsible opposition, so that they learn that they no longer face populism and wishful thinking, but credibility, progress and responsibility, to highlight the real failures in burden of our country”.

Continuing his speech, Nikos Androulakis noted that “ND will fall when the real alternative, the progressive democratic faction, PASOK, the Change Movement, is reborn, because we will face conservation, elitism and populism”. From June 26, “Mr. Mitsotakis will not have an ineffective opposition against him, but a strong democratic movement, PASOK”.

Furthermore, he said that “as much as some try to re-impose the fear of anarchy, they know very well that there is another fear that is real and not the imaginary fear of communication systems – and that is the danger of omnipotence unchecked and unruly, which will continue with intemperance the parastatal games, the cover-ups of major scandals and a powerful client state at the expense of the public interest, serving powerful oligarchic interests”.

He also underlined that “our country has a duty to have a strong progressive force”, adding that “it is not left-wing to have a leadership in SYRIZA that holds thousands of democrats and progressive citizens hostage, it is not an honor for Mr. Tsipras that he does not he voted for the amendment that forbade the participation of Fyssa’s killers in our political system and three days before the national elections he called on the lost gold diggers to vote for SYRIZA, it is not justice everywhere to condemn his closest associate and have him on the ballots”.

“Our priority,” he emphasized, “is justice, transparency and meritocracy, that’s why I don’t accept anyone hurting the Greek people again.”