Nikos Androulakis has opted for doomsday scenarios and the narrative of… victory in the national elections, but he isn’t convincing anyone.

Although the September data will show how the race for second and third place is shaping up on the road to the upcoming national elections, the current picture is as follows: in second place is Alexis Tsipras is in second place and PASOK is in third —although in some polls it appears to be vying for that spot with the party of Maria Karystianou.

For three years, Nikos Androulakis’s PASOK failed to convince the public that it was the second pillar of the political system. It chose a strategy that mimicked the populism of Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA, their doomsday rhetoric and anger, perhaps hoping to ride a wave of outrage that would lead to the dismantling of Kyriakos Mitsotakis and New Democracy.

It turned a deaf ear to voices within the party that raised concerns about strategic errors, and, perpetually angry , became trapped in a constant stream of accusatory rhetoric and a “no” to everything, which was even reflected in key legislative measures, creating conditions for PASOK’s transformation from a ruling party into a protest party.

It operated along lines dominated by the original ideas, a trend reflected in the polls with Alexis Tsipras’s return to the political scene and failed to project the image of a prime ministerial candidate, with the result that his suitability for the premiership not only falls short of Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s but also of the poll numbers his own party is garnering.

And yet she continues in the same vein. In Rhodes, for example, where he was on Saturday, he portrayed a country in disarray and citizens practically wandering the streets hungry. The worst part is that he’s trying to convince people that if PASOK forms a government—not just on its own but in coalition with progressive parties he doesn’t name—it will solve all the problems, and immediately at that.

The result? The needle drops and the narrative of victory—even by a single vote—and of coming in first in the national elections is being questioned even by his own colleagues at Harilaou Trikoupi, who realize that if this narrative continues and PASOK ends up in third place—or in second by a wide margin—then there is a risk that they will all be labeled… quaint.