N. Androulakis: I promise that I will be the president of the whole faction, not only those who voted for me

“I pledge on Sunday night to be president of all if you give me this opportunity, either those who voted for me or those who did not vote for me,” said PASOK leadership candidate Nikos Androulakis at a large rally in Rhodes.

“Some did not believe that this process would lead 270,000 citizens, progressive democrats of all generations to participate actively last Sunday. Their participation is the hope, their participation is the compass. PASOK returns, Mr. Tsipras and Mr. “Mitsotakis are losing their sleep and this is the message of last Sunday. We are here again together, without the old divisions, united, knowing that we must not repeat the mistakes of yesterday”, stressed Mr. Androulakis, commenting on the attendance at last Sunday’s ballot box and the perspective it creates.

Against ND and SYRIZA, “we are coming to become the center-left again, which will again oppose the right wing and not a party like SYRIZA, which was born of the crisis and is a weapon in the hands of Mitsotakis, his wickedness and his populism. “This dipole of discord and misery, the Democratic Party is reborn and will be the next governmental choice of the Greek people, so that the people have a progressive, realistic, programmatic choice,” he added.

“Social democracy is returning because the pandemic has highlighted its necessity,” Androulakis said. “The needs give birth to the parties, the needs for a welfare state, equality, dignity, social justice, are here and we must respond to them. These needs regenerate the Party and make it strong. I ask that this historical responsibility be borne by all together “Next Sunday, I call again here in Rhodes and the 270,000 democratic progressive citizens who honored us and gave us hope, to come again, to meet, and together to fight for the next parliamentary elections.”

Mr. Androulakis asked for a “clear mandate for renewal, a clear mandate for unity. A unity that I will not allow anyone to play with. No one will play with the unity of PASOK and the Democratic Party again. I say this because our members were injured. “Our friends, all of us, from the behaviors of old protagonists. Unity will no longer be the convenience of the old protagonists. It will be a unity of the base, the program, the values, and the principles of PASOK and the Democratic Party.”

Regarding the next day, he commented that “no one will have special behavior, we will not be a party where paratroopers will land in critical positions. We will be a party of internal meritocracy that will respect all its executives, whatever choices they make “I will never allow anyone else to make our members and friends the decision-makers of the central government. Our every position will be a product of consultation and internal democracy.”