The expansion of PASOK is not going so well, so the party has been forced to pick up several former members of Mera25‘s Giannis Varoufakis.
One of the issues being hotly debated among the Harilaou Trikoupis cadres about the famous expansion of PASOK is the cadres the party has picked up from Mera25. Executives who were once frontline members of the Varoufakis party.
For example, some time ago, PASOK was joined by former Mera25 MP, Maria Apatzidi, who in the past has made controversial statements about the illegal Turkish-Turkish memorandum while speaking in Parliament, wearing a Tempi blouse, in a climax of populism and instrumentalization. She had not asked herself what good the election of Pierrakakis to the presidency of the Eurogroup would do Greece.
But the lesson was not learned for Nikos Androulakis and the new expansion of PASOK brought more Mera25 members to the party. Thus, it was announced that the former Mera25 MP, Angeliki Adamopoulou, who also spent some time in Syriza, joined the party.
She had previously stated from the Parliament that it is legitimate to have a framework of… violence in society, as there is inequality: “Violence is a law of the land. And it is a social law because the root cause of these phenomena is social inequalities. All these have a logical consequence of social reactions within very legitimate limits of violence.”
Also announced was the accession of Eva Abazi, who was running as a candidate for parliament with the party of Yanis Varoufakis. She had previously appealed to the Council of State to prevent police officers from having cameras in Exarchia and other areas of Athens.
Many in PASOK say ironically that the party has acquired an internal party “tendency of Varoufakis and Mera25” while wondering how the leadership can accept members from a party that is against the European Union and beyond.
Also a lot of talk in the party about the fact that enlargement is not about the centre, a key area that PASOK should target, but the far left, from which the party has at least something to gain.
However, most people do not blame the failed enlargement on Kosta Skandalidis, who heads the enlargement committee, but on Nikos Androulakis himself, as it is he who makes the final decisions.
