Nerves abound in PASOK. The needle is stuck and the president is a stalwart Nikolas (Androulakis) except for his suitability to be prime minister.
It’s not just Nikos Androulakis who appears angry about everything and with everyone, it’s also the party’s executives who show intense irritation at seeing time ticking away and the needle barely moving just to show that it exists. But even worse is the fact that their leader has nothing to do with the famous… prime ministership.
The PASOK president, when asked on polls on suitability includes the names of the leaders of the parties that currently exist, he is in second to fourth place, if we do not include in the list the nobody who continues to make a career in second place. Occasionally he is overtaken by Zoe Konstantopoulou and Kyriakos Velopoulos, while the percentages are single digits.
When the question is asked without including names, Nikos Androulakis drops further down the list. But what’s causing nerves for him and irritation for others is that Alexis Tsipras is in second place. And although he too has single-digit percentages at this stage, the problem is that he has no… party. He is a potential leader, which in theory could mean an even higher percentage when he becomes a party.
In any case, all the polls refute the narrative of Nikos Androulakis and his cohorts that he will win the next national election even by one vote. In fact, they bring the leader of PASOK and his party to fight for second place, which may evolve into a fight for… third place.
The tactics he has chosen, apart from being reminiscent of the days of the 1980s in the most extreme form, are also catastrophic, showing a miserywhich at the end of the day does not correspond to everyday life and especially to the real problems of the citizens.
The party’s turn to the left brings it face to face with the prototype of catastrophology and populism in Alexis Tsipras who, if anything, knows this game better, regardless of the fact that he no longer cuts tickets, as citizens seem to choose stability over banalisation.
PASOK is experiencing days of agony. The small, barely upward, percentages do not allow for a firewall. They are also creating obstacles to the famous enlargementas executives who move in the Left are waiting for Tsipras’ moves before making decisions on which way to (re)move.
Androulakis’ anger is registered in all his public appearances. And besides acting as a deterrent to a large number of centrist voters, he maintains a toxicity that touches and sometimes exceeds extremes, with personal attacks and characterizations that are not consistent with a party like the one he represents.
