Despina Vlepakis

In Charilaou Trikoupi they are feverishly preparing for the confrontation between Nikos Androulakis and Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Parliament, as it is the first debate on the budget, in which the President of PASOK also holds the position of Leader of the Official Opposition, and the stakes are high.

The meetings of the President with his close collaborators are continuous and in his speech Nikos Androulakis is expected to attempt to deconstruct the Government’s policy and to focus on highlighting an alternative proposal for governing the country with the PASOK policy.

Already the leader of the Official Opposition put the story of Political Change in the public debate, in the context of his presence at the conference organized by the newspaper “To Vima” on the topic: “Transformation 1974-2024: 50 years of Foreign Policy”.

“The PASOK and I personally put up a great fight to become the second strong pole that aspires to become a government.

After the next elections, there must be another government that respects the problems of the Greek people,” emphasized Nikos Androulakis.

The President of PASOK from the floor of the Parliament will refer in detail to PASOK’s initiatives that expose the government’s mistakes, the government’s ineptitude and the absence of strategic planning by the Government as pointed out by his close associates.

The barrage of amendments tabled by the PASOK MPs will be an important weapon in the quiver of Nikos Androulakis since, as Charilaou Trikoupi estimates, the initiatives of the green faction bring results for society, such as the amendment for BAE for nurses and the proposal for the bank charges.

The goal is “bilateral enlargement” with an eye on the “Center”

The reform agenda is expected to enter the conflict table with Harilaou Trikoupi throwing arrows at the Government for delays. It is also an opportunity for him Nikos Androulakis to appeal to a target audience of Center and Center Left voters. From the floor of the Parliament, we will hear Nikos Androulakis highlight the impasses of today’s economic policy, which traps the country in permanent austerity and cannot guarantee fiscal stability, as argued by executives of the faction that closes the eye in the Center.

Pressure from the left and the moves on the Androulakis chessboard

As Harilaou Trikoupi explains, their main opponent and target may be the ND and its policies, but the pressure they are receiving from the left does not go unnoticed. The strategy of the leaders of the green faction and the signal given by the President is that “Nothing will be left unanswered”. Nikos Androulakis’s nail to Alexis Tsipras is included in this context.

“Mr. Tsipras must hold a conference to decide how for the first time in the post-revolution a party was defeated twice – and indeed the second time by more than 20% difference – to decide why their politics and style of opposition was defeated by such an unprecedented way for post-colonial times. I consider it a little absurd, that the same leading person comes to give me opposition lessons”, was the sharp response of the President of PASOK to what the former Prime Minister mentioned about the current Opposition and about the institutional meeting of Nikos Androulakis with Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Tet a tet Androulakis – Venizelou

Everyone’s eyes may be on today’s battle, but Nikos Androulakis’ schedule is full of meetings and events inside and outside of Greece. On Monday, the President of PASOK is expected to attend an honorary event for Evangelos Venizelos. Recently, the name of the former president of PASOK has been heard for the Presidency of the Republic, with Harilaou Trikoupi however not opening her papers and closing any discussion by clarifying that she is not included in the nomenclature. The only thing that is certain is that Evangelos Venizelos fulfills the one and only condition that Harilaou Trikoupi has set for the support of the person who will assume the highest state office of the country… He must be from the Center Left.

The event is organized by Sakkoula Publications and the Circle of Ideas for the presentation and performance of the Compensatory Volume “The theory of the constitutional act. Dialogue studies with the work of Evangelos Venizelos” on Monday, December 16, 2024 at 18.00 at the National Gallery (50 Konstantinou Street, Athens)

“This rewarding volume in which contributions are collected [57 μελέτες που καταλαμβάνουν 1.314 σελίδες] in honor of Ev. Venizelou has a particularity in relation to other honorary volumes, because we asked the participating authors for texts of a dialogue with the Honored One, based on positions and concepts that he himself elaborated in the various fields of constitutional law, of course with full autonomy in terms of their further development” mentioned in the Introduction by: Charalambos Anthopoulos, Aikaterini Iliadou, Lina Papadopoulou, Nikos Papachristos and Costas Chrysogonos who edited the volume. The presentation will include, among other distinguished speakers, the former minister and Professor Emeritus of AUTH, Antonis Manitakis, and the honoree for his action, Evangelos Venizelos.

In Brussels for the PES meeting

On Thursday the President of PASOK will be in Brussels for the meeting of the European Socialist party (PES).