{"id":10105,"date":"2026-06-11T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10105"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:10:00","slug":"dimitris-danikas-for-nikos-androulakis-is-it-possible-for-him-to-be-a-leader-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10105","title":{"rendered":"Dimitris Danikas for Nikos Androulakis: Is it possible for him to be a leader? (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"208\"> Dimitris Danikas launched a strong criticism of Nikos Androulakis, questioning his leadership image and the performance of PASOK. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"210\" data-end=\"451\"> <strong data-start=\"212\" data-end=\"232\">Dimitris Danikas<\/strong>, speaking on <strong data-start=\"256\" data-end=\"268\">&#8220;TODAY&#8221;<\/strong> on <strong data-start=\"273\" data-end=\"281\">SKAI<\/strong>, was particularly sharply critical of the president of <strong data-start=\"333\" data-end=\"342\">PASOK<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"344\" data-end=\"363\">Nikos Androulakis<\/strong>, focusing on both his political presence and the party&#8217;s electoral performance. <\/p>\n<h3 data-section-id=\"5ntjrh\" data-start=\"453\" data-end=\"502\"> The spikes on leadership and &#8220;dolphins&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"504\" data-end=\"751\">The journalist said he saw <strong data-start=\"556\" data-end=\"570\">Androulakis<\/strong> at Parliament and found it hard to imagine him as a political leader. &#8220;When you see him, you say &#8216;is it possible that he is a leader? As if he was an MP in some constituency,&#8221; he commented. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"753\" data-end=\"968\">At the same time, he argued that the inner-party <strong data-start=\"796\" data-end=\"810\">&#8220;delphins&#8221;<\/strong>could move in concert against him, wondering if the <strong data-start=\"894\" data-end=\"903\">PASOK president<\/strong> would dare to proceed with deletions or removals of cadres. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"970\" data-end=\"1278\"> <strong data-start=\"972\" data-end=\"983\">Danikas<\/strong> also stood by the electoral performance of <strong data-start=\"1024\" data-end=\"1033\">PASOK<\/strong>, arguing that it had historically been behind <strong data-start=\"1086\" data-end=\"1096\">Syriza<\/strong>. In fact, he said the party had even been behind Stefanos Kasselakis, noting that the latter had recorded a <strong data-start=\"1240\" data-end=\"1247\">15%<\/strong>, compared to <strong data-start=\"1256\" data-end=\"1263\">13%<\/strong> of <b>PASOK<\/b> in the euro-elections. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1280\" data-end=\"1476\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Closing his statement, he argued that the position of the <strong data-start=\"1337\" data-end=\"1367\">regular opposition<\/strong> came to <strong data-start=\"1381\" data-end=\"1390\">PASOK<\/strong> not because of political domination, but &#8220;by <strong data-start=\"1432\" data-end=\"1445\">carabinet<\/strong>&#8220;, as he put it. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"el\" dir=\"ltr\">Danikas: &#8220;I saw Androulakis in parliament and I couldn&#8217;t believe it. When you see him, you say &#8216;is it possible that he is a leader? It&#8217;s as if he were a deputy in a region. The rest of the delphins have to band together and say things, will he dare to kick them out? PASOK has always lost to&#8230; pic.twitter.com\/HOojz1CO0O<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; tomanifesto.gr (@tomanifesto) June 11, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&lt;\/html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Dimitris Daniikas strongly criticised Nikos Androulakis, questioning his leadership image and the performance of PASOK.<\/p>\n<p>    The &#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10105","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\/10105","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=10105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}