G. Papandreou: We can become a majority force again

The former Prime Minister and candidate for the leadership of KINAL, George Papandreou, expressed his satisfaction for yesterday’s gathering of supporters in Thiseio, speaking on SKAI TV. “It was a sign of hope and rebirth of the party. We are a party that can bring the new,” said Mr. Papandreou and stressed:

“We can become a majority force again. I see the enthusiasm and the participation. It will be the model of a big participatory party.”

Regarding the criteria for the election of a new president, G. Papandreou argued that it should be: “Who can grow the party, who can create a current of development of this space, who can inspire, bring people back, who can contribute to innovative ideas to say what it means today to be progressive in the era of the pandemic and the new geopolitical situation, so that Greece has a strong voice … I believe that I can actually help “, Mr. Papandreou pointed out.

The goal, he explained, is for KINAL “to become a majority again, to become a government and a prime minister, let there be someone else in the socialist space”.

“Power must go to the people. We strike at arbitrariness and centralism, key long-standing problems of power,” he said.

As for the party symbols, he referred for discussion to the congress that will follow, as he said, “it is in our soul, we must use them, it will be discussed at the conference as well”, he said for PASOK and the green sun, adding: “But “I want them to donate blood with new positions and proposals.”

George Papandreou also spoke about the recent past where he claimed that “the ND-PASOK alliance did not help our movement … It was an extraordinary time of great crisis for the country, and wider forces were needed. The mistake was that Samaras actually overthrew the government If he had stayed, we would have finished with the memoranda, I believe, Mr. Samaras did not allow changes to take place beyond the PCI that we had agreed on in 2011 anyway in Brussels. 2012 when we had to go to a second election “.

He also referred to the discussion with V. Seibel, who, according to the former prime minister, said that “you will leave the euro and we have made a humanitarian aid package for Greece”.

“See how Turkey is today with the pound falling, we would be even worse, and Turkey has production, it does not have as many imports as we do, imagine doubling energy and all products. They wanted humanitarian aid like Africa, the Middle East “Think about how they saw Greece as a third country, think about foreign issues and how vulnerable we would be,” Papandreou said.

Source: AMPE