The Androulakis has chosen the path of toxicity: the polls are causing anxiety and Tsipras’s impending party formation is causing anxiety.

The PASOK chairman has gone up on the… tiles. angry, angry attacks on the prime minister, the government, ND and its MPs, the judiciary and its officials, increasingly reminiscent of Alexis Tsipras.

And as polls show his inability to be the political opponent of the ruling party the rhetoric is becoming increasingly toxic.

He insults the government as “mafia” and the ND. as a “gang”, denouncing everyone without any evidence, attempting to get some voters as far to the left as possible in fear of the emergence of Alexis Tsipras and the new party, which may not overtake him in the race for second place, though it is sure to cut percentages.

After all, the original is always better than the copy in terms of populism and toxicity and, for what it’s worth, the space Nikos Androulakis is attempting to address belongs more to the former prime minister, former president and former SYRIZA MP.

The Mega poll came to cause even more nerves for the… mighty president of PASOK as it shows that with the barrage of attacks against the government and the operation to deconstruct Kyriakos Mitsotakis by the media and external factors, he managed to win a percentage that does not exceed 1.4%. The expected attrition of ND from the ongoing war did not help PASOK. It didn’t get the… bang that some expected.

And that’s not all. Nikos Androulakis’ suitability for prime minister barely reaches 6%. In essence, even those who say they will vote for PASOK barely trust him as prime minister. Even worse, Alexis Tsipras, who has an approval rating of… 7%, passes him. Minimal by the standards of the former prime minister, but above his rival in the battle for second place.

The icing on the cake is the fact that 76% of citizens say they oppose the opposition tactics PASOK is following under the instructions of its president.

Nikos Androulakis has left the centre for the eyes of the Left and the antisystemic protest movements and now finds himself facing his choices and Alexis Tsipras in a field that the latter knows best, as was evident from his speech in Heraklion, Crete, and his general presence on the political scene.