{"id":13105,"date":"2026-06-26T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13105"},"modified":"2026-06-26T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:22:00","slug":"fotini-arabatzi-new-democracy-has-defeated-tsipras-five-times-pasok-is-fighting-for-third-or-fourth-place-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13105","title":{"rendered":"Fotini Arabatzi: New Democracy has defeated Tsipras five times\u2014PASOK is fighting for third or fourth place (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"4\"><b>Fotini Arabatzi<\/b> commented on the internal dynamics within the <b>opposition <\/b>faction<\/a> <\/b>following the founding of the new <b>party<\/b> led by <b>Alexis Tsipras.<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">Ms. Arabatzis began by recalling the center-right bloc\u2019s clear electoral superiority over the former prime minister in the past, pointedly noting that \u201c<b>New Democracy has defeated Tsipras five times<\/b>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">As the MP pointed out, <b>Mr. Tsipras \u201csaid something else that should be of particular concern to the opposition: that if he hadn\u2019t formed his own party, Mitsotakis would have won by a landslide<\/b>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">Continuing her analysis, <b>Fotini Arabatzi<\/b> assessed that the founding of the new political faction achieved its immediate goal, which was none other than <b>regaining leadership within the left and center-left political spectrum<\/b>, dramatically shifting the balance of power for the other contenders. \u201c<b>From the moment he founded his new political party, Tsipras has taken control of the opposition<\/b>,\u201d she emphatically stated.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">Concluding her remarks, the New Democracy MP <b>turned her criticism toward Harilaou Trikoupi<\/b>, arguing that <b>Alexis Tsipras\u2019s momentum is trapping PASOK at low poll numbers<\/b> and thwarting any hopes it might have for a leading role. \u201c<b>This is an issue that I imagine a party like PASOK, which is fighting for third or fourth place, should give serious thought to<\/b>,\u201d Ms. Arabatzis concluded.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"el\" dir=\"ltr\">Arabatzis on Tsipras: \u201cNew Democracy has beaten Tsipras five times. He said something else that should be of particular concern to the opposition: that if he hadn\u2019t founded his own party, Mitsotakis would have won the election hands down. Ever since Tsipras founded his new political\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/5b368jz0Oc<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 tomanifesto.gr (@tomanifesto) June 26, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fotini Arabatzi commented on the internal dynamics within the opposition camp following the founding of Alexis Tsipras\u2019s new party. Ms. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13105","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\/13105","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=13105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}