{"id":10082,"date":"2026-06-11T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10082"},"modified":"2026-06-11T07:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:49:00","slug":"pasok-populism-toxicity-and-dolphins-in-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10082","title":{"rendered":"PASOK: populism, toxicity and dolphins in waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delphins in PASOK seem to be awaiting the result of the next election, but the question is what they will find after that.<\/p>\n<p> <b>Nikos Androulakis<\/b> is threatening deletions &#8211; from now on, though &#8211; of anyone who doesn&#8217;t toe the party line, reminiscent of those who keep saying <b>&#8220;last time I&#8217;ll put up with this&#8221;<\/b> but end up doing nothing.<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense for the party chairman not to want the image of introversion to come out. And to attempt to shut down scenarios like the one that speaks of his &#8220;on-board&#8221; change that began circulating after the conclusion of a polling cycle that opened with the party&#8217;s announcement of <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, however, <b>the party&#8217;s dolphins do not seem willing to engage in this pre-election race in order to avoid the scribbling.<\/b> That is, to charge not with defeat, which is a given, but with the position on the&#8230; board on election Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>And there may be some references to the tactics being followed, which are increasingly turning PASOK into a protest party,<\/b> but in essence they are avoiding open conflict at this time since the risk of being found to be disempowered is great.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>But on the other hand, a big question arises. If PASOK continues on this path &#8211; of populism and toxicity &#8211; after the national elections what state it will be in. In other words, what will the next president pick up and how manageable will that be?<\/p>\n<p>The <b>fourth place<\/b> or even the third will act as a centrifugal force for the benefit of other parties, possibly the second, and a return to Charilaou Trikoupis will be not difficult but impossible. See for example that to reach 11.8% in the 2023 elections took a lot of effort. And we are talking about a rise of just 3 points since 2019, while his main rival was dismantled.<\/p>\n<p>Even worse, <b>demographically he showed that he barely moved the needle sometimes and eventually it started pointing downwards<\/b>. So the next one is in danger of finding what we call &#8220;scorched earth&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delphins in PASOK seem to be waiting for the result of the next elections, but the question is what they will find after that.<br \/>\nNikos &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}