{"id":12825,"date":"2026-06-25T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12825"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:14:00","slug":"dimitris-kairidis-launches-new-attack-on-haris-doukas-athens-has-never-been-in-a-worse-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12825","title":{"rendered":"Dimitris Kairidis Launches New Attack on Haris Doukas: Athens Has Never Been in a Worse State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fierce <b>attack<\/b> on <b>Mayor of Athens Haris Doukas<\/b>, launched from <b>Parliament <\/b>by <b>Dimitris Kairidis<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. <b>Kairidis <\/b>argued that <b>the capital\u2019s image has deteriorated dramatically during his tenure<\/b>, going so far as to say that \u201c<b>Athens, to be honest, has never been in a worse state, not even during the years of the deep crisis of the previous decade<\/b>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During his remarks, as part of the debate on the <b>new Local Government Code<\/b>, the parliamentary spokesperson for <b>New Democracy<\/b> sarcastically referred to the internal dynamics within the Center-Left and the disputes between <b>PASOK and ELAS<\/b>, blaming the mayor of Athens for an informal, organized <b>popular front<\/b> that is leading the party into a dead end. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019d be in a better position,\u201d he said, \u201cif Mr. Bakogiannis had been elected.\u201d <b>For us, the Doukas mayoralty is a godsend, because it serves as a vivid, recurring example of the \u201cpopular front\u201d you\u2019re trying to form, together with SYRIZA, the New Left, and PASOK<\/b>,\u201d he noted characteristically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimitris Kairidis launched a fierce attack on Athens Mayor Haris Doukas from the floor of Parliament.Mr. Kairidis argued that the image of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12825","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\/12825","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=12825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}