{"id":11275,"date":"2026-06-17T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11275"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:57:00","slug":"george-floridis-on-pasok-it-has-fallen-behind-fringe-parties-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11275","title":{"rendered":"George Floridis on PASOK: It has fallen behind fringe parties (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"229\">     The Minister of Justice George Floridis assessed that the PASOK will come under pressure, as it is accused of being unable to put together a credible alternative governance proposal. <\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"231\" data-end=\"287\">     George Floridis on PASOK\u2014sharp criticism of rhetoric and policy choices <\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"289\" data-end=\"518\">     <strong data-start=\"291\" data-end=\"311\">George Floridis on SKAI<\/strong> argued that <strong data-start=\"330\" data-end=\"339\">PASOK<\/strong> \u201cwill come under pressure,\u201d since, as he noted, in recent years it has failed to define a <strong data-start=\"428\" data-end=\"440\">policy<\/strong> that would make it a serious and credible <strong data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"517\">opposition force<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"520\" data-end=\"700\">     At the same time, the minister accused the party of choosing to \u201ctag along\u201d behind <strong data-start=\"596\" data-end=\"619\">fringe parties<\/strong>, specifically citing its march behind Zoe Konstantopoulou. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"702\" data-end=\"1009\">     He also noted that <strong data-start=\"732\" data-end=\"741\">PASOK<\/strong> adopted <strong data-start=\"756\" data-end=\"775\">extreme rhetoric<\/strong> and perpetuated <strong data-start=\"792\" data-end=\"814\">conspiracy theories<\/strong>, a fact which, in his view, painted the picture of a party operating according to the logic of <strong data-start=\"906\" data-end=\"944\">marginal political group<\/strong> rather than a <strong data-start=\"958\" data-end=\"980\">historic party<\/strong> that has governed the country. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1011\" data-end=\"1225\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">     In closing, <strong data-start=\"1025\" data-end=\"1045\">Giorgos Floridis<\/strong> assessed that this particular political course is already taking a toll on <strong data-start=\"1107\" data-end=\"1116\">PASOK<\/strong>, adding that it remains to be seen whether this cost will ultimately prove to be particularly <strong data-start=\"1203\" data-end=\"1211\">burden<\/strong> for the party. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"el\" dir=\"ltr\">Floridis: \u201cPASOK will come under pressure; in recent years, it has been unable to define a policy that would establish it as a serious rival to the government. It chose to trail behind fringe parties, such as Konstantopoulou\u2019s, adopting extreme rhetoric and theories\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/SOhMAsDmNO<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 tomanifesto.gr (@tomanifesto) June 17, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Justice Minister George Floridis predicted that PASOK would come under pressure, accusing the party of being unable to form a credible &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11275","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\/11275","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=11275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}