However, the available data show a different picture. According to information, Sduku<\/strong> has been a registered member of ND<\/strong> since 16 May 1997<\/strong>, when she was 19 years old. In addition, in the period 2004-2009<\/strong> she worked as adviser to ministers in the government of Kostas Karamanlis<\/strong>, before continuing her career as a permanent employee at the Ministry of Energy.<\/p>\n The main source of the relevant discussion seems to be the presence in the office of the then minister Giannis Maniatis, where she was placed by posting<\/strong> as a permanent employee of the ministry. There he was, among other things, responsible for the hydrocarbons<\/strong> file, at a time when the subject was at the heart of the country’s energy plans.<\/p>\n It is worth noting, however, that there was a similar official collaboration later on with Panagiotis Lafazanis<\/strong>, who also chose her for his political office when he took over the Energy portfolio under the Syriza<\/strong> government.<\/p>\n The question being asked by those following the case is whether the choice of a civil servant<\/strong> by ministers from different governments is a sign of a change in party identity<\/strong> or whether it is simply a recognition of his or her technocratic and ministerial competence.<\/p>\n To date, those who claim that Sduku<\/strong> was politically linked to PASOK<\/strong> have not publicly presented evidence showing her participation in party events, party organs or other political activities in that area. Instead, the only evidence they cite relates to her tenure in the cabinet office of Maniatis<\/strong>, which in itself can hardly be considered sufficient evidence of political affiliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Much has been written and more has been said by various people about Alexandra Sdoukou’s political career. But what is the truth? Was she PASOK? …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10147","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\/10147","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=10147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"f5730eb7-2a4e-464d-8ea9-cbaff2aafe23.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/96\/f5730eb7-2a4e-464d-8ea9-cbaff2aafe23.jpg\")
<\/figure>\nThe secondments to Maniatis and Lafazanis<\/h2>\n
The distinction between official and party roles<\/h2>\n