Direct “shots” at him Nikos Androulakis launches with his announcement o Haris Kastanidiswho was left out of Parliament after the decision of the president of PASOK to keep the seat of A’ Thessaloniki.

Mr. Kastanidis speaks of “chosen ones” and emphasizes that “You either choose to impose the renewal as leader in a timely manner with your decision or, otherwise, you respect and honor the choice of the voters, without consulting unknown backgrounds”.

In more detail, the statement of its executive PASOK. Harry Kastanidis:

I will not participate in the new composition of the Parliament, not because it was decided by the citizens who once again elected me first, but because it was decided by Mr. Androulakis, keeping the seat of A’ Thessaloniki.

The president of PASOK exercises his exclusive right, a right that belongs to all party leaders.

However, the exercise of leadership rights must serve rules, values ​​and principles.

If Mr. Androulakis’ decision was based on his desire to renew the parliamentary group, he had an honest choice vis-à-vis an elected member of his party, with a long parliamentary career: to call me before the May elections and ask me not to participate on the ballots, since his intention was renewal.

He didn’t do that. He chose to exclude me, since, previously, the citizens decided that they want me to continue to represent them, now the only remaining elected member of parliament from the great and historic PASOK.

The renewal either you choose to impose it as a leader in time with your decision or, otherwise, you respect and honor the choice of the voters, without consulting unknown behind-the-scenes.

For the above reasons, I assume that the criterion of Mr. Androulakis was something other than renewal.

Apparently, he considered me to be far less adequate and suitable educationally, politically and in terms of experience than his other chosen ones. An opinion which he seems to have had when he eagerly asked me to take responsibility for the management of critical issues in the Parliament, without then thinking that he should give the opportunity to new people.

The assurances of himself and his associates to citizens, journalists and current MPs that “the seat will be returned to Kastanidis” in the June 25 elections, offends all the people of Thessaloniki, who are left without representation by the man to whom they gave the relevant mandate.

All that remains for me is to express my eternal gratitude to the citizens of Thessaloniki and the Greek People. To the only ones I owe.

I assure them that in the coming struggles for a better Greece, for the people and their hopes, for a victorious faction of the ideas of democratic socialism, I will be present.

Haris Kastanidis