The member of the Political Council in PASOK, Petros Efthimiou, emphasised that their faction “is by its nature, by its custom a celebration of energy”.
Talking on the night of Thursday 20/06/2024 on the ERT present “Epilogos”, he mentioned: “It might be an enormous mistake” if the results of the European elections was thought-about a private matter. “And in at present’s state of affairs – that is how I began my speech on the Political Council – PASOK, the present PASOK, I depart its historical past, the PASOK of the final decade owes to 2 individuals. In Fofi Gennimata that pulled us out of the nicely and introduced us to the political floor and to Nikos Androulakis who, with the Romanian place, gave PASOK its political autonomy once more. So it isn’t a matter of an individual, within the sense of exhibiting the reason for the evil within the particular person, however it’s a matter of total insurance policies which were practiced and insurance policies that have to be modified.
As a result of in the event you keep static, believing that every little thing goes nicely and you do not take note of the general circumstances, that it was actually raining gold for PASOK, New Democracy was shrinking, SYRIZA was disintegrating and in any case we did not make, let’s put it that method, a necessary intervention , in order that we collect so many disappointments and switch them into hope”.
In response to a query from Apostolos Maggiriadis, in response to which Mr. Efthimiou had addressed Mr. Androulakis throughout the Political Council, saying that anybody who tries to mimic Andreas in Pentelikos finally ends up a political dwarf like Alexis Tsipras, the historic determine of PASOK, he clarified: “I mentioned we should always not use administrations in politics. That the final time PASOK management was manifested by Andreas Papandreou 34 years in the past in Pendelikon. When he had proposed Akis Tsochatzopoulos for secretary. (…) A sequence of executives had reacted and in an effort to impose on Akis Tsochatzopoulos had threatened with harsh language that there are adventurers and so forth and never simply deletions, that he would dissolve the social gathering to create a brand new one. With very harsh language. This has not been repeated within the historical past of PASOK. What I seen is that you need to at all times take into accout the distinction in sizes and the distinction in seasons.
And he added the next, that Mr. Tsipras wished to attract from Andreas Papandreou. A terrific chief that’s. And I remind you that his mimicry reached the tragic stage of engasterimythia, imitating each Andreas’s tone of voice and gestures. And I mentioned that when you’re a toddler like Mr. Tsipras, uneducated, uncultured and with a foul social upbringing, the comparability with what you select, that’s, a political large, leads you to be a political dwarf. So we do not take the leaders and imitate them, as a result of there are nice risks there. Every period has its personal wants, its personal traits, and I personally consider that everybody should inscribe their very own type of management, and we can not retrieve fashions that served in different eras and from different sizes. That is what I mentioned,” defined Mr. Efthymiou.
Concerning how PASOK ought to proceed from right here on, Mr. Efthymiou argued: “I consider that as I recommended to him yesterday, the President himself, Nikos Androulakis, ought to take the initiative and attraction to the bottom. This has two potentialities. One is to ratify his coverage and what he would possibly add to the Central Committee, which would be the two-day assembly of June 29-30. Which implies it is gaining energy in view of the confrontations and developments within the Heart-Left. Or we can have a succession from another person who can even begin with a brand new chapter in an effort to set up PASOK on the heart of political developments. So for me attraction to the bottom is a wholesome course of. It purges all which can be energy performs. (…) And we’re clearly going to activate the bottom to offer an order to both validate Nikos Androulakis, or to another person who will probably be introduced and voted on. And that is the place to begin for the faction. I consider it’s the healthiest transfer. That is what I requested the President, Nikos Androulakis, to request and information this course of himself.”
Concerning the date on which, in his opinion, the polls needs to be set, Mr. Efthymiou said that the “essentially the most mature, essentially the most full, is to arrange on the newest on the finish of September, starting of October and actually candidacies have been clearly introduced, in order that celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of PASOK on September third, it is going to be a celebration of pluralism. And as an alternative of getting one particular person handle, it needs to be all of the candidates addressing that we’re 50 years previous and we are able to go for much more in a artistic method, honoring our heritage and renewing its contents.”
Concerning whether or not there’s a probability of elections being held in July, the historic member of PASOK emphasised: “I think about this to be a suicidal transfer. Why do not you maintain elections in order that the mechanisms work. You maintain elections since you anticipate society to return to border, increase and legitimize your procedures. Maintain the elections July 20-25. For my part, I do not suppose that anybody has thought of it or that they’d suppose to recommend it in my view.”
Within the final interval, nevertheless, a dialogue has opened up, clearly inside PASOK, but in addition a extra basic dialogue in regards to the space of the Heart-Left. And in reality we hear a number of executives within the discipline who say that the 2 poles, SYRIZA, PASOK, and even different events that transfer within the wider progressive area ought to discover a technique to go down collectively within the subsequent nationwide elections in 2027. I would really like in precept a primary reply in the event you suppose that such a factor is feasible.
“I do not suppose it is attainable, however I additionally fully disagree” burdened Mr. Efthymiou in response to the query of whether or not it’s attainable for PASOK and SYRIZA to collude and run collectively within the subsequent nationwide elections. “Any type of bonding signifies that you truly acknowledge that you do not even have an ideological, that you do not have a political identification, you simply have a thirst for energy and we’re all small. In different phrases, I’m completely in opposition to the logic of strengthening ourselves by becoming a member of collectively to go to energy. That is discrediting the coverage. Politics has which means with positions, rules and path of the nation. I personally say, and do not consider it as any type of partisan patriotism, that we’ve to resolve one thing. We clearly must launch processes of unity, however agree on a primary technique that the social gathering that emerges will probably be a member of the European Socialist Occasion. So I say that any dialogue in regards to the unity of the area will presuppose that he’ll find yourself being a member of the European Socialist Occasion”.
Concerning the attainable return of Alexis Tsipras, Mr. Efthymiou said that he believes that he’ll “be accepted by each member and govt of PASOK, if he completes the cycle of self-criticism that he began. And everybody has the suitable to make their errors, but when they acknowledge them, you possibly can discuss to them on a brand new foundation. Nonetheless, I’d not consider that Mr. Tsipras is a person who can regain the belief of the Greek individuals within the place of Prime Minister. He was tried and located unfit of having the ability to declare it, in my view. You understand, in politics you by no means say “by no means”, however it could be good to not be tempted to recycle, to be tempted to resume”
Concerning whether or not the form of France, the form of the union of the progressive center-left forces in view of the parliamentary elections, might in a roundabout way be a information for the developments in Greece, Mr. Efthymiou mentioned: “No, as a result of there may be additionally a particular emergency situation. I perceive it fully from the assertion of Hollande and Jospin, because you additionally talked about his identify, who mentioned that we’re doing it only for this, that Le Pen should be stopped from being elected first. And I honor them for that and I deeply perceive it. It’s horrible {that a} Le Pen authorities will probably be put in in France. Horrible for all of us, for Europe. As a result of if these forces prevail, the idea of political solidarity ends. We return to the slender borders of the nation state. Everybody appears out for his personal curiosity, he would not care in regards to the different. It will likely be a really, very damaging Europe and it’ll additionally contribute to a brand new anti-European present in societies. In order that they did the suitable factor and entered this mound. However that is out of necessity and it needed to be finished and it was nicely finished. For Greece, we would like open dialogue procedures with a dedication of function. If we decide the aim, that’s to say we’re going to set up a powerful faction that will probably be a part of the European Socialist Occasion, we’ll discover them in every little thing. At the least we all know why we’re speaking. If we go to the unusual proposal to unite, we will probably be members of the PES and members of the left and the greens on the identical time. It’s clearly a flag of alternative. The Greek individuals now not need flags of alternative”
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