Nikos Kotzias was deeply disturbed by PASOK‘s emptying of Charis Doukas‘s statements in support of the Prespes Agreement.

A few days ago at an event attended by Alexis Tsipras and Charis Doukas, the latter almost congratulated the former prime minister on the Prespes Agreement, speaking of an agreement that was necessary to fight… nationalist passions. In fact, the Athens mayor spoke about the need for partnerships, tapping into the narrative of Alexis Tsipras.

Of course, all of this vehemently annoyed Nikos Androulakis, as the Athens mayor not only went against the official party line on the Prespes Agreement but also winked at Alexis Tsipras and a future collaboration.

So from Charilaou Trikoupis it was leaked that what Charis Dukas said was not an official party line while emphasizing Androulakis’s dissatisfaction with the event. In fact, top executives expressed negative views on Charis Doukas and what he said about the Prespes Agreement, which the party had voted against, causing new intra-party friction.

Kotzias’ anger and Tsipras’ message

Seeing the Androulakis leadership’s emptying of Charis Doukas on Prespes, Nikos Kotzias reacted strongly and attacked PASOK. Let’s not forget that Nikos Kotzias was the foreign minister who negotiated the agreement in the Tsipras government.

The former minister accused PASOK of being a “peddler of the myths of the New Democracy” and claimed that Kostas Simitis was in favour of Skopje using the name Macedonia.

In fact, he writes that more and more… are seeing the positive side of the agreement while accusing PASOK of aligning itself with the New Democracy narrative and not knowing anything about diplomacy and foreign policy.

Really how will they get along with Alexis Tsipras when half of PASOK executives speak in the worst terms about the Prespes Agreement while the other half see the agreement in a positive light? However, it is said that the anger of Kotzias was not accidental and that Alexis Tsipras himself is behind it, who chose to defend the mayor of Athens.

After all, Nikos Kotzias is preparing for the former prime minister’s Ithaca, so the defense of Harris Doukas and the attack on PASOK have a specific target.

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