{"id":12981,"date":"2026-06-26T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12981"},"modified":"2026-06-26T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:42:00","slug":"sakis-moumtzis-on-the-karystianos-party-will-it-still-exist-in-october-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12981","title":{"rendered":"Sakis Moumtzis on the Karystianos Party: Will it still exist in October? (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     Maria Karystianou lacks a clear political framework, argued Sakis Moumtzis, noting that she may seek cooperation. <\/p>\n<p>     <strong>Sakis Moumtzis<\/strong>, speaking on the show <em><em>\u201cEDO<\/em>\u201d<\/em>* on <strong>ONE<\/strong>, with <strong>Stamatis Zacharos<\/strong>, commented on the political presence of <strong>Maria Karystianou<\/strong>, arguing that it lacks specific political substance and expressing the view that, since her party does not participate in the elections, she may seek some <strong>collaboration<\/strong> to capitalize on her influence. <\/p>\n<h3>     Moumtzis\u2019s assessment of Maria Karystianou\u2019s participation in the elections <\/h3>\n<p>     <strong>Sakis Moumtzis<\/strong> stated that he considers what is happening to be \u201cvery logical,\u201d since\u2014as he put it\u2014this is a political group that \u201chas no political stance.\u201d In fact, he likened the political context of <strong>Maria Karystianou<\/strong> to the phrase \u201cbetter to be rich and healthy than poor and sick,\u201d adding that expressing wishes such as \u201cmay we live in a world without wars and with global peace\u201d does not constitute a political stance. <\/p>\n<p>     For his part, <strong>Stamatis Zacharos<\/strong> humorously remarked that he himself would prefer a world without wars and with world peace, adding that \u201cit\u2019s not exactly beauty pageant material,\u201d before asking his interlocutor whether he thought <strong>Maria Karystianou<\/strong> would run in the upcoming <strong>elections<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>     In response, <strong>Sakis Moumtzis<\/strong> expressed doubts about her future political presence, saying characteristically: \u201c<strong>Will she still be around in October?<\/strong>\u201d Finally, he assessed that if she does not participate in the <strong>elections<\/strong>, she will attempt to leverage the remaining influence she has through some form of <strong>collaboration<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"el\" dir=\"ltr\">Moumtzis on Karystianou: \u201cWhat\u2019s happening makes perfect sense, because a party that has no political stance\u2014its political framework reminds me of \u2018better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.\u2019 It\u2019s not a political stance to say, \u2018How nice it would be to live in a world where we wouldn\u2019t\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/RUTux9l6d7<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 tomanifesto.gr (@tomanifesto) June 26, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Maria Karystianou lacks a clear political framework, Sakis Moumtzis argued, noting that she may seek to form a coalition.<\/p>\n<p> The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12981","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\/12981","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=12981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}