“Battle” for the centre space between the South West and PASOK: Difficult balance and bet

“Knifes” between the government and the post-choice of Costa Tasoula for the Presidency of the Republic, with the look of both sides on the central voters. And while in the previous period everything showed that the presidential election could lead to a consensual choice, in recent days a series of statements by both Nikos Androulakis and top members of his party, gave the occasion to the “blue” party to identify PASOK, not only with Syriza, but also with the New Left and Mera 25 of Giannis Varoufakis. CORVERSE “PASOK’s compass now clearly shows as its fellow travelers the parties of the drachma,” states ND. “Front” conflict Statements by Kostas Tsukalas and last those by Michael Katrinis and Paul Geroulanou, who hinted that PASOK could work with both Syriza and the other parties, the New Left, the Freedom of Life Sailing Constantopoulou and MERA25, even caused internal party reactions in Harilaou Trikoupis for the party line. Thus, yesterday, Sunday (19.01.25), Nikos Androulakis had to intervene to bring down the tones, and argued that he did not open any issue of collaborations and that “the discussion of post-election partnerships that he instigated three years before the election, opened up artificially from the New Democracy to hide the political deterioration of the handling of the issue of the Presidency of the Republic,” as he said in an interview with SKAI. CORVERSE In response, government spokesman Paul Marinakis rejected the “propaganda of the government” and charged the leader of PASOK with “trying to gather the uncompromising statements of his previous days on electoral cooperation. And it made them worse.” “PASOK president spoke of government propaganda. Is propaganda what he said last Monday and specifically that “the scenario is: the next government to be the ND with some other parties or PASOK with some other parties or PASOK or the New Democracy with self-reliance”?” asked the government representative, referring also to Paul Geroulanoulan’s statements “which did not exclude either Mr Varoufakis from potential PASOK interlocutors”, as he said, but also Michael Katrinis who… “closed the eye” to Socrates Famelos and Alexis Haritsi, The “stick” The “blue” party takes the decision to “frontal” with PASOK, with the ND despite Costa Tasoula’s centre-right choice for the Presidency of the Republic, to remain firm in its strategy to widen its impact on the centre area. “The strategy does not change” explicitly states a member of the government’s party, recognizing that it is “a bet” on the one hand the opposition of the leaks to the parties to the right of the Southwest and on the other hand enlargement to the area that claims to dominate PASOK.