{"id":12160,"date":"2026-06-22T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12160"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:57:00","slug":"its-not-how-much-it-costs-but-how-much-it-loses-koutsoubass-quote-and-dimitris-oikonomous-comment-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12160","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s not how much it costs, but how much it loses\u201d \u2014 Koutsoubas\u2019s quote and Dimitris Oikonomou\u2019s comment (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     On SKAI TV\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d program, Akis Pavlopoulos and Dimitris Oikonomou commented on the stance of PASOK, citing an earlier statement by Dimitris Koutsoubas and criticism of the lack of concrete proposals from the KKE. <\/p>\n<h2>     Pavlopoulos on PASOK and the reference to Koutsoubas\u2019s remark <\/h2>\n<p>     <strong>Akis Pavlopoulos<\/strong>, commenting on the stance of <strong>PASOK<\/strong>, argued that the party is essentially adopting a phrase previously used by <strong>Dimitris Koutsoubas<\/strong>. As he characteristically noted, \u201cIt\u2019s not \u2018how much it costs,\u2019 as Koutsoubas had said, but \u2018how much it loses.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p>     Subsequently, <strong>Dimitris Oikonomou<\/strong> commented that the general secretary of the <strong>KKE<\/strong> is good with figures of speech, but raised questions regarding substance and policy positions. \u201cSure, Koutsoubas is good with wordplay. Do we have any <strong>proposals<\/strong> that are better? Playing with words is all well and good, but seriously, does he have any <strong>proposal<\/strong> to share with us? Tell us a proposal,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>     <strong>Akis Pavlopoulos<\/strong> replied sarcastically, \u201cin favor of the <strong>people<\/strong>,\u201d with <strong>Dimitris Oikonomou<\/strong> wrapping up the exchange by saying: \u201cOh, okay, okay.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"el\" dir=\"ltr\">Pavlopoulos: \u201cPASOK is essentially adopting the stance previously taken by the KKE. This isn\u2019t \u2018how much it costs,\u2019 as Koutsoubas said; it\u2019s \u2018how much it loses.\u2019\u201d Oikonomou: \u201cWell, Koutsoubas is good with wordplay. Do we have a better suggestion? Just playing with words\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/rbguEu2QZ6<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 tomanifesto.gr (@tomanifesto) June 22, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    On SKAI\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d program, Akis Pavlopoulos and Dimitris Oikonomou commented on PASOK\u2019s stance, referring to an earlier statement by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12160","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\/12160","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=12160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}