The Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, Odysseus Konstantinopoulosin his letter to the members of the Political Council of PASOK he asks to hurry up the procedures for the election of management, for it to occur till the tip of the 12 monthsas an alternative of December 2025, when the time period of Nikos Androulakis usually ends.
The letter of Odysseus Konstantinopoulos
Athens, June 12, 2024
Pricey Secretary
Mates of the Political Council
Just a few days following the European elections, I made a decision to share some ideas with you regarding the way forward for the faction.
No private anxiousness in regards to the future, however anxiousness in regards to the faction.
The messages of the European elections had been clear to everybody.
- New Democracy not solely didn’t obtain its objective, however the election consequence was for it a message of disapproval for its insurance policies and attitudes. It retains her alive, that the opposition events haven’t satisfied the individuals.
- The social gathering of Mr. Kasselakis, which following the departure of the executives, obtained a single-digit proportion within the polls, registered a proportion of 14.9% within the European elections, having a distinct political viewers that has nothing to do with the progressive area.
- The far-right as a complete surpasses the second social gathering when it comes to percentages, “caging” 700,000 individuals, and is getting ready to observe the trail of the opposite far-right events in Europe, in direction of energy.
The faction fought one other essential electoral battle. And he gave it with a transparent political stake: that PASOK – refusing to be trapped within the political entrenchment of a celebration of protest or sterile negativism, i.e. to show right into a “KKE of the middle” – as President N. Androulakis had aptly identified – is prospectively looking for, and in view of the following parliamentary elections, to look the ND within the eye and distinction a convincing various counterproposal for the governance of the nation.
Permit me a bit evaluation of the chances from 2015:
In January 2015 within the Nationwide Elections our social gathering acquired 4.7% (with 290,000 votes) and everyone seems to be speaking in regards to the finish of PASOK.
However within the Nationwide Elections in September 2015 he acquired 6.3% (with 342,000 votes, i.e. with 52,000 extra votes).
Within the nationwide elections of July 2019 PASOK with 8.1% elevated voters by 115,000 in comparison with 2015 to 458,000 (a rise of 34%) when SYRIZA misplaced 145,000 voters, whereas New Democracy additionally massively elevated voters by 725,000 reaching 2,250,000 voters.
Within the 2023 elections, we had one other enhance that confirms the regular upward pattern of the faction, since we once more bought a double-digit proportion.
Nevertheless, the 160,000 extra voters in June 2023 in comparison with 2019 fall far wanting the 851,000 voters who left SYRIZA and the 136,000 who left New Democracy, which in complete add as much as 1 million voters.
As well as, this can be very problematic that within the European elections PASOK misplaced 168,000 voters.
When New Democracy and SYRIZA misplaced 50% of their voters, regarding 2 million.
New Democracy misplaced regarding 1.3 million voters out of two.4 million voters in Might 2023.
SYRIZA misplaced regarding 592,000 voters out of 1,184,000 voters in Might 2023.
Marginal rise with 0.95% isn’t underestimated by anybody. However in no case does it present an inclination to accumulate majority traits.
It’s the third electoral contest beneath the present management that the city facilities have the identical image when it comes to percentages.
The intervention of the events within the city facilities is finished primarily by means of the central political picture that you just transmit and can’t be lined solely organizationally. The marketing campaign, the slogan and through which media you reproduce it are essential.
Our social gathering’s objective of second place within the European elections was not achieved. Does the excessive stakes stay?
In fact. It’s a political obligation of all progressive residents, of all probably the most actively concerned executives, and much more so of established and traditionally charged political events, akin to PASOK, to proceed to insist that:
• We can not enable the coordinated evolution of the political techniques of nearly all of European international locations, highlighting the dominant forces of the intense proper, intolerance and Euroscepticism, to happen in an emphatic method in our nation as nicely. We won’t let the intense proper be discovered throughout the precise, and for that there isn’t any time to waste.
The faction should make the most of the political time and never waste it till the nationwide elections. PASOK has procedures for the election of management in 2025. On the similar time, there should be a provision for the enlargement within the area of the center-left.
- The enlargement and unification of forces within the area of the center-left will need to have grassroots traits that may unite it. Progressive and patriotic insurance policies.
- Enlargement isn’t the addition of numbers, percentages or MPs, which can go towards the contemporary in style will.
- To succeed, it should be guided by ideas and values. In any other case there’s a danger of it showing as a ‘chairs’ deal.
I make it clear that for me Mr. Kasselakis has nothing to do with the centre-left. However there are dozens of executives on the central stage and 1000’s on the base that we might “stroll” collectively. However primarily it’s the greater than 2 million residents who didn’t go to vote and it’s the individuals of the middle, as much as the renewing left.
All of this, to be able to be executed, requires clear options, in addition to management that has time forward of it.
Let’s be sincere, there are executives, who do exist, and who’ve ambitions to guide PASOK and the Middle-Left. It occurred previously, it occurs now. We all know {that a} lengthy pre-election interval would create introversion.
With my proposal, the management that might be chosen might have the entire 12 months forward of them to advance the processes with contemporary in style will.
I want to recall the instance of Fofi Gennimata who was elected in July 2015 and in an effort to develop the faction, following 2 years in November 2017 she put her mandate on the disposal of the residents, with the participation of the President at the moment Nikos Androulakiswhereas it had a constructive, for the season, results of 6.29%, from 4.6%.
At present it’s crucial to not enable the waters to stagnate and to not grow to be slowed down.
We want a powerful reboot! A brand new robust legitimizing order to place into observe the good PASOK of our expectations, with management that mobilizes broader social forces.
Due to this fact, I request instantly, throughout the subsequent week, that the our bodies of PASOK convene, and determine on the precise schedule: The electoral procedures for the management of the faction, supplied for within the statute for 2025, must be accelerated, in order that by the tip of this 12 months, each these and the following Congress for the collection of our insurance policies and the election of our collective our bodies might be accomplished.
Restart management, political, organizational, for PASOK and the good faction of the Middle Left!
In an interview with Mega, Mr. Konstantinopoulos characteristically famous that “PASOK should determine whether or not it is going to stay a center-left KKE or whether or not it is going to proceed with a course of that may make it a pole of energy on this space, stressing, the truth is, that solely the PASOK generally is a formidable rival to ND. I nonetheless can not digest that PASOK is a 3rd social gathering, behind Stefanos Kasselakis’ SYRIZA”. Whereas stating that politics isn’t solely communication and life-style and stressing that even SYRIZA can not really feel glad regarding its electoral efficiency on Sunday.
Requested if he’ll elevate the difficulty of management within the social gathering, Mr. Konstantinopoulos stated that “I do not determine on a frontrunner, there are procedures”, whereas he defended the intervention of Nadias Giannakopoulos, saying that every government has the precise to his opinion. On the similar time, following all, he additionally attacked the ND, focusing his criticism on the exorbitant financial institution income from the assorted commissions and the federal government’s absence from this subject.
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