{"id":1335,"date":"2026-04-18T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:38:00","slug":"boomerang-for-androulakis-the-constant-appeal-to-the-government-of-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"Boomerang for Androulakis the constant appeal to the government of Sanchez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <b>Nikos Androulakis<\/b> has often spoken flatteringly of <b>Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/b>, even citing him as an example of governance for Greece, which seems to backfire on him.<\/p>\n<p>Nikos Androulakis<\/b> in recent times, at the urging of his close associates, has made several references to <b>Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/b>, who after all belongs to the European socialists, as an example of progressive governance for our country as well. In the same line was <b>Charis Doukas<\/b>, who defended the Spanish prime minister in his posts.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <b>PASOK<\/b> was preceded by <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b>, who from 2023 onwards also uses the Spanish prime minister as an example of progressive governance. <\/p>\n<p>Things are changing, however, as many clouds have gathered over Spain&#8217;s socialist government. And already within <b>PASOK<\/b> there are already rumblings about <b>Androulakis<\/b> choosing to rely so heavily on the <b>Sanchez<\/b> example.<\/p>\n<p>Aparticularly after the prosecution of the Spanish prime minister&#8217;s wife for corruption and the polls, which predict a major defeat for the socialist party in Spain, the <b>PASOK<\/b> leadership is beginning to distance itself from the <b>Sanchez<\/b> paradigm narrative.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the climate is exacerbated by the Spanish prime minister&#8217;s decision to legalise nearly half a million immigrants from Africa, a move that is being met with strong opposition in Spanish society and is a policy that apparently does not sit well with Greek society either. At the same time, the Spanish Prime Minister&#8217;s &#8220;war&#8221; business with <b>Erdogan<\/b> and the accusations that the Spanish government is supplying military equipment to Iran through third countries have set off a red alert in Charilaou Trikoupis.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the socialist <b>Sanchez<\/b> government hasn&#8217;t managed to perform any miracles on the economic front either, as Spain now has higher unemployment than Greece, roughly the same levels of inflation and the promise of a four-day working week was eventually rejected as unproductive.<\/p>\n<p>And many wonder why <b>Nikos Androulakis<\/b> did not reject the recommendations for <b>Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/b> from the start, knowing his relations with Turkey and the fact that the Spanish prime minister&#8217;s party is losing by a wide margin in the polls. However, even in <b>PASOK<\/b> they understand that the most&#8230; &#8220;Mr. Eleison&#8221; with the Spanish socialists is hurting them and it&#8217;s a narrative more suited to <b>New Left<\/b> type parties.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s too late now. Because for so long the <b>Androulakis<\/b> leadership has been passionately defending the <b>Sanchez<\/b> government, and more importantly holding it up as an example of governance for Greece, effectively giving points to <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikos Androulakis has often referred to Pedro S\u00e1nchez in flattering terms, even citing him as an example of governance for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","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=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}