Andreas Loverdos spoke about the new “Democrates” party he founded on the SKAI show “Atairiastoi”, stressing when asked about it that the goal is to attract votes from PASOK and ND.

Asked about the name of the new party, Mr. Loverdos said that “I liked it very much, it is inclusive and you draw a line, knowing who you are not addressing the fascists, the thugs, the bigots and the racists who in many countries of Europe they have adopted messages like patriotism and profiteering.” Mr. Loverdos even said that the party’s press representative will be a woman.

Regarding where his party is positioned in the political space and why he chose the absence of the green color, Mr. Loverdos replied that “my party is in the center. As for the color green, I didn’t want any vendetta with PASOK, in which I spent my whole life, and I chose the blue that is of the homeland, the red that shows populism and all together that shows reform and that does not exclude patriotism . I have succeeded in my life, I am a patriot and I do not give it to the extremists. As a minister I made a series of reforms that survived. In our party, reform is combined with patriotism.”

Answering about the pool of voters from which he intends to draw voters, Mr. Loverdos said “from both PASOK and ND, I say it directly. We will not only move between as a space of the center, I am not center-right or center-left, I am a centrist. We ask the ND voter who is mainly dissatisfied with accuracy and health to give us a protest vote of dignity in the European elections, I will personally be a candidate. From PASOK, from those who believe in Andreas Loverdos and are not happy with PASOK, which is taking a plunge into the Left, going to crowd where the Freedom Movement, the KKE, Mr. Varoufakis, the New Left and SYRIZA are” .

Commenting on PASOK’s stance on the bill for non-state universities, Mr. Loverdos said that “what he says about non-state universities is outrageous for the modernizing PASOK, what he says about Article 16, the claim that the , what they said in 2019-2020, I expressed the faction then, they say it today. They have let all these days slip away, trusting to a view of the unconstitutionality of the law, and have not put a finger on the type of thorn in section 132 where matters are regulated for today’s colleges that one can easily assume might be and universities. PASOK had to say “yes” on principle. In 2006 I voted “white” as I proposed the establishment of university legal entities that are something between legal entities of private and public law.”