Voula Patoulidou: My flag identifies me, whatever race I fight as an athlete or as a politician.

‘ The time has come for my mother to vote for me” she confesses. In the decision to test the upcoming European elections and the reaction of her beloved mother Voula Patoulidou was mentioned, among other things, in the interview she gave in the Secret insert of Parapolitics and Sasha Stamatis. Is it true that your mother will vote for you for the first time? How is that possible? For the European Parliament they can vote for me from all over Greece and my mother has her rights to Tripotamos Florinas. So many years I had a bad feeling that my own mother could not vote for me in the autoadministrative for the Prefecture of Thessaloniki. Yes! It’s time my mother voted for me! As soon as I told her she called all the aunts, friends and neighbors to tell them. In addition to the right to vote, he appointed himself director of communication and spokesperson to Tripotamos Florine. From Thessaloniki Region to Europe. How do you feel about that? Responsibility! But, as Kamu says, “If anything is going to happen to me, I want to be there.” The proposal for the European elections came at the moment when I felt I wanted to offer more. To be where decisions are taken that determine the future of the United Europe. The future of Greece. In sport I was the first to hear our national anthem on the track after nearly 90 years, at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. On the track of politics and local government, the years that followed, with rivals the problems that make our everyday life difficult, I proved that, when you have the love and appreciation of your fellow citizens, who elect you twice in a row first in votes in the Region of Thessaloniki, no obstacle is insurmountable. I will do the same now on the European Parliament track. Athlete or politician? What would you call Vula Patoulidou? Greek! I don’t mean the way to the polls. I mean the fight I fight after the polls. I wish I could meet all the people who voted for me. To meet them one by one and say: “Thank you for honoring me with your vote. Now I will honor you with my work.”