PASOK in vortex: Kastanidis on Geroulanos’ statements – Tension in PASOK’s central office – Dukas calls for party meeting

With canvass numbers remaining virtually stagnant, arsenic Pavlos Geroulanos noted, concerns wrong PASOK implicit its electoral show are increasing — sparking a caller question of aggravated statement wrong the party.

Despite attempts to downplay Geroulanos’ remarks truthful arsenic not to beryllium accused of creating an intra-party issue, his connection — that “if canvass numbers don’t determination successful the adjacent 2 months, we volition person occupation moving them until the elections” — continues to occupation different MPs and executives. Many judge opportunities for PASOK’s fashionable surge are not being afloat exploited. Clarifying the party’s connection is seen arsenic much urgent than ever. Haris Dukas is calling for an contiguous legislature and a determination that PASOK volition not cooperate with New Democracy aft the elections. However, the elected bodies person not met successful a agelong time, and Nikos Androulakis responded that the PASOK programme presented astatine the Thessaloniki International Fair (DETH) was the enactment of self-appointed leaders and members of the party’s Sections. Furthermore, the predetermination of caller bodies is pending since Androulakis’ re-election, arsenic it requires a legislature — present rumoured to instrumentality spot earlier year’s end.

A little societal media connection by Haris Kastanidis outlines 3 causes of the problem, concluding with the strategical challenge: “1. The elected Political Council of PASOK has not met since June 2024; 2. The appointed Political Centre is inactive; 3. A caput of the CECS was appointed without immoderate members of the body! We request a enactment successful motion, with institutions that specify strategy.” Kastanidis has repeatedly criticised PASOK’s enactment and called for a gathering of the Political Council, of which helium is an elected member. While helium agrees with Androulakis’ nationalist stance that PASOK indispensable not springiness successful to New Democracy aft the elections, Kastanidis retains beardown power successful Thessaloniki and is preparing to question re-election against SYRIZA’s Rania Thraskia and Petros Pappas — perchance besides against Anna Diamantopoulou, if her candidacy determination is confirmed.

Within PASOK, determination is simply a increasing consciousness of the informing issued a twelvemonth agone by the precocious Kostas Simitis: “Opportunities are not infinite.” This makes Geroulanos’ remark astir stagnant canvass numbers each the much striking. An experienced enactment enforcement adds that with rumours of different governmental “players” — specified arsenic Alexis Tsipras launching a caller enactment — entering the field, PASOK indispensable enactment fast, enactment collectively, and hole for electoral contention with a wide strategy against New Democracy. Otherwise, the accidental for the desired surge successful canvass numbers could beryllium lost.

Yesterday, Pavlos Geroulanos stressed that his main interest is broader mobilisation. “Have you seen galore radical warring the conflict arsenic I person for PASOK to rise? If you accidental yes, springiness maine names,” helium told OPEN TV, underlining his consciousness of over-effort compared to different leaders past October. While Geroulanos usually avoids crisp nationalist statements that mightiness irritate party’s cardinal office, helium appears to beryllium expressing his concerns privately to different enactment executives. “Let’s spell retired and enactment PASOK’s programme everywhere, truthful everyone knows what it stands for. My constituent is this: if you deliberation we fearfulness the polls, I volition archer you the existent trial is the ballot box, not the polls. People privation governmental change.” He added: “This is simply a captious infinitesimal for america — those seeking a solution indispensable beryllium convinced by our programme. To bash that, the crushed indispensable beryllium fertile, and determination has ne'er been much fertile crushed than now. This is our job. Now is the opportunity. If we fight, canvass numbers volition determination — they volition not stay stuck.”

MPs are calling for much regular, elaborate discussions and meetings of the parliamentary squad to guarantee a unified presumption connected large issues. Executives of the Political Centre and the Political Council accent that the organs indispensable function. Some callback that, connected the day of September 3, Yannis Vardakastanis spoke astatine the podium alternatively of the elected Secretary Andreas Spyropoulos. They question why, aft Spyropoulos handed implicit duties to Vardakastanis.

When invited to remark past nighttime connected Action24 astir concerns wrong PASOK, Nikos Androulakis stated simply: “I person thing to reply to immoderate PASOK executive, due to the fact that these issues person already been addressed.” However, helium emphasised that “throughout the summer, 34 argumentation areas were developed with hundreds of radical moving connected a costed betterment programme,” adding that “these teams tin signifier portion of the adjacent authorities to code obstacles.” The PASOK person stressed that “all PASOK cadres indispensable combat for governmental change” and that “under nary circumstances volition we cooperate with New Democracy.”

Finally, it is lone a substance of clip earlier Filippou Sachinidis, erstwhile curate and existent subordinate of the Political Council, who has been sharply captious of the enactment since the European elections, publically announces his positions connected the centre-left.