PASOK leader rules out collaborations that would ‘undermine’ socialist party’s agenda

Main absorption person Nikos Androulakis, caput of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), connected Sunday ruled retired entering into immoderate alliances that could compromise his party’s program. 

Speaking astatine a property league during the 89th Thessaloniki International Fair, Androulakis said: “We will not succumb to the temptation of collaborations that will undermine our program.”

Androulakis stressed that “political change” will lone travel done a socialist PASOK victory implicit ruling blimpish New Democracy.

He underlined that proposals presented successful his speech astatine the Thessaloniki lawsuit connected Saturday were “extremely cautious regarding their fiscal aspect,” accusing the authorities of creating “obstacles for the mediate class.”

Responding to questions connected the reinstatement of the so-called 13th wage (end-of-year bonus) for civilian servants, eliminated during the fiscal situation of the 2010s, helium insisted that each measures person been costed, are viable, and supply prospects “for everyone.” “We are not populists; others are populists,” helium added, stressing PASOK’s “different mentality” successful supporting society.

On the imaginable of New Democracy securing a third consecutive term, helium urged: “Let’s take enactment earlier it’s too late.”

Asked astir imaginable post-election coalitions, Androulakis declined to speculate, saying: “I cannot beryllium Nostradamus and ideate oregon picture what the electoral footprint of the fashionable verdict will beryllium successful the adjacent elections. I tin repetition that adjacent with a single vote for PASOK up of ND, the state will person a antithetic government, a governmental alteration that will surely bring a amended beingness for the Greek people.”

On erstwhile premier curate and erstwhile caput of the leftist SYRIZA enactment Alexis Tsipras and the anticipation of him forming a caller enactment for a governmental comeback, Androulakis was dismissive: “Whether Tsipras stays successful SYRIZA oregon splits does not interest PASOK.”