“The second round of the municipal elections showed that there is a need to form an alternative and reliable governance proposal that will acquire majoritarian characteristics and express all Greeks.

The people who supported the candidacy of Haris Doukas in the Municipality of Athens, Dimitris Kouretas in the Region of Thessaly and many other elected officials who were elected and express the democratic and progressive version of self-government, sent their own resounding message.

A message that was at the same time a message of disapproval of the arrogance of the government, its inadequacy to protect the citizens and to assume its responsibilities. There is a large majority that is looking for a way out”, stressed the Parliamentary Representative of PASOK – Movement for Change, Michalis Katrinis, speaking in the Parliament.

He also noted that “the democratic way out is not shaped by shouts, wishful thinking, rough, superficial and sloganeering proposals. Instead, clear and specific proposals are needed for the economy, taxation, the country’s development model and entrepreneurship, the international role of our country, regional development and productive reconstruction, the welfare state and public health. All these proposals, combined and renewed, constitute an alternative governance proposal but, above all, they must be an expression and a way out for the citizens.”

“For PASOK, it is a strategic goal to express this democratic majority,” Mr. Katrinis pointed out, stating that “we need a structured alternative proposal, a serious opposition, reliable and clean persons, a realistic and convincing strategy. And of course, an alternative and majority proposal is not shaped by consensus or summit agreements, it is shaped within society, social forces participate in its shaping”

He closed his speech by emphasizing: “A society of low expectations, such as the one the government wants to create, is a society defeated and resigned. The state of responsibility and law is not the one that hides, that is missing when the citizen needs it, the one that looks for excuses, the one that hides responsibilities. This is not a state of responsibility and law. This is the staff state of the New Democracy that has failed. And we call on the opposition parties to vote for PASOK’s proposal to establish a preliminary investigation committee for Tempi. Because it may be the opinion of the Prime Minister’s communications advisers that the dead are forgotten after a month, but there are some who do not. There are also some who lost their children unjustly and are asking for justice, they are asking for justice.”