«I wish the Party to win both the battle of the conjuncture and the war of History“, Stressed o Evangelos Venizelostalking to 3rd Congress of PASOK-Movement for Change and added: “The period until the parliamentary elections, whenever they take place, and the new parliamentary and governmental period, whatever the government, will have multiple difficulties. Many open fronts. This is the central issue. We must bring the public debate and the country into line».
The former vice-president and former president of the PASOK party claimed that there are two fundamental democratic and national obligations to which all the parties of the constitutional arc must respond, the national duty of integrated and realistic perception of reality at international, European and local level and the national duty of truth and honesty that always has a cost because, as Mr. Venizelos explained, “always some do not respond to it and so the truth hardly confronts the pleasant lie or the stereotypical evasions. “Populism and demagogy are inherent elements of democracy.”
Evangelos Venizelos underlined that “parties owe and are entitled to have their electoral ambitions and targets and this obviously applies to PASOK – KINAL which is entitled to the best. No party has an obligation to facilitate others. However, the responsible attitude, from a point of fatigue and maturity of the society onwards, may function as an advantage, especially when the special electoral audience, such as that of the center and the center-left, is more demanding “. He added that “the new leadership of PASOK – KINAL will make its weightings and will compose the narrative of the Party that will be proposed as the national narrative of the next period».
However, he made it clear that “Democracy always moves between conjuncture and history. Things are judged electoral first. But later they are judged historically. The Democratic Progressive Party has had many electoral successes and many electoral failures at the current level. But today she is proud of the positive evaluation of her contribution at the level of History».
He added that each generation lives its own conjuncture and wants the best results in it, immediate and tangible. «Especially when he has suffered. It is completely reasonable and natural. But each generation also writes its own chapter in the history of the place. And there we certainly all want the severe crisis of History to be positive».
Mr. Venizelos analyzed in detail great dangers to democracy, European and national identity and legitimacy caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. His extensive reference to the economic war of attrition, in which the EU is primarily involved on the part of the West, the need for rapid energy independence from Russia and the complete disruption of the international energy market, coexist with the explosion of inflation and supply problems, the need to avoid recession and stagnant inflation, the need to maintain growth priorities and safeguard the competitiveness of the European economy. «All this is ultimately judged at the level of European societies and national political systems. At the level of politics and democracy“, Underlined Evangelos Venizelos.
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