The “war of the centre” began between and the NW after his decision to propose Constantine Tasoula as President of the Republic. And this is because in addition to the relief that PASOK officials felt from the centre-right choice made by the Prime Minister for the President’s person, they consider that now is the time to re-approach voters from the centre they lost in previous years by highlighting the right turn of Kyriakou Mitsotakis. CORVERSE It is characteristic that PASOK’s spokesperson, Kostas Tsukalas on his part insisted on his position that Kostas Tasoula’s nomination is supported only by the Spartans. In this context the President of PASOK appeared yesterday particularly critical of the Prime Minister’s proposal for the President of the Republic saying that… “Mr. Tasoula’s choice is a one-party attitude against the spirit of the Constitution. That’s one face. The other is the imperial behavior of Mr. Mitsotakis who despises the intelligence of the Greek people.” Nikos Androulakis stressed that he showed institutional behavior and insisted to the end on the spirit of the Constitution for consensus on the nomination for the President of the Republic, as tradition imposes that the government takes the initiative rather than the opposition. ADVERSE “In honor of the spirit of the Constitution we proposed Tasos Giannitsis – he added – expressing Greece’s progress, consistency, foresight, which goes together. He has strong and historical symbolism.” He even commented on Lucas Katseli’s nomination that Syriza has proposed, stressing that “the law passed by the PASOK government in 2010, for the first residence, but not passed by Syriza. Instead, he abolished him. So symbolism is good, but not to play with history. The people have a memory.” A little hour later, however, through leaks the government responded to the president of PASOK saying that… “The President of PASOK Mr. Nikos Androulakis, wanting to find arguments for Mr. Giannitsis’ nomination, fell into a huge political self-goal”. “Specificly, Mr. Androuliakis said from the House step: “We proposed for the Presidency of the Republic Tasos Giannitsis, who symbolizes Greece of predictability, Greece which if it did what it had to do in the right time we probably would not have experienced the monumental disaster.” Government officials then stress: “Only the Jannitsis reform for insurance in 2001, which Mr. Androulakis implies as a welfare policy, which would even prevent the monumental disaster, was blocked by the then PASOK government. As it turns out, Mr Giannitsis needed the support of PASOK in 2001 rather than 2025.” Anna Diamantopoulou in her post insisted that… “The proposal of the Prime Minister and President of the ND confirms a purely right-wing turn in his political narrative towards old cutting, fearsome, introverted and purely party perceptions”.
The centre’s war between PASOK and SW is raging after the Tasoula selection
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