Internal party turmoil continues in PASOK in the wake of the result of the European elections, for which top officials are now directly raising the issue of leadership. At the same time, the leadership group refers to the conference, which will take place at the end of 2025.

Odysseas Konstantinopoulos was the first to start the dance, and from then on the questioning of the PASOK president seems to be taking on great proportions.

On Wednesday, the reactions culminated with Odysseus Konstantinopoulos, PASOK’s Arcadia Member of Parliament and deputy speaker of the House going a step further by sending a letter to the members of the political council of the party, requesting the acceleration of the procedures for the election of a new PASOK leadership.

After asking for the immediate convening of the bodies, the Arcadia MP stated in his letter that the electoral procedures for the leadership of the faction, provided by statute for 2025, must be accelerated, so that by the end of this year, they will be completed.

At the same time, the MEP Nikos Papandreou with his article in Proto Thema pointed out that “the responsibility lies with the de facto leadership and it is the one that was rejected by the political body”, adding that “at this critical moment for our party, the the friends and members, the true basis of PASOK, must have a say”.

For his part, Pavlos Geroulanos, commenting on Constantinopoulos’ letter, said that “any written proposal that will lead to the strengthening of the party is welcome”.

Charilaou Trikoupi responded to Konstantinopoulos’s request and criticism with clear points, referring to the party’s statutes.

“PASOK is in need of extroversion movements, which is not served by hasty and coordinated public interventions by those who allegedly interfere with the institutional functions of the institutions. We will not allow the party to sink into introversion and what was built with efforts and sacrifices in recent years, to be lost in a few days. In any case, respect for statutory functions and provisions is the guarantor of unity,” say party sources.

The main contenders

However, the information says that signatures are already being collected in order to submit a request for an appeal to the internal party polls by the end of 2024. In fact, the same information mentions Pavlos Geroulanos, Manolis Christodoulakis, Pavlos Christidis and Nadia Giannakopoulou who was the first to raise the issue of leadership.