{"id":3449,"date":"2026-04-30T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2026-04-30T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:43:00","slug":"voularinos-trolls-pasoks-political-statement-on-justice-and-maximos-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3449","title":{"rendered":"Voularinos trolls PASOK&#8217;s political statement on Justice and Maximos (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <b>Manos Voularinos trolls PASOK<\/b> political statement by a PASOK cadre<\/b> about <b>Justice <\/b>and the <b>Megaron<\/b><b>Maximou<\/b>, commenting on the phrase &#8220;<b>no evidence needed<\/b>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>In a <b>sharp and satirical way<\/b>, Manos Voularinos intervenes<b> in the public dialogue<\/b>, commenting on <b>a political position of a PASOK cadre<\/b> regarding <b>Justice and the Meximou Megaron<\/b>. At the heart of <b>his criticism is the reference<\/b> that for <b>such assessments &#8220;no evidence is needed&#8221;<\/b>, a phrase that <b>idios highlights through his characteristic<\/b> style <b>as an example of excessive political interpretation<\/b>. Through <b>satire<\/b>, he attempts to illuminate <b>how formulations based on political considerations<\/b> can be <b>transformed into weighty statements<\/b>, fuelling <b>contrasts<\/b> around the <b>functioning of institutions and public rhetoric<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>specific aversion<\/b> has sparked <b>debates around the limits of political rhetoric<\/b> and whether <b>how much public statements should be evidence-based<\/b> or content with <b>interpretations of institutional reality<\/b>. Within this <b>framework<\/b>, Voularin&#8217;s <b>intervention<\/b> falls within his <b>familiar satirical approach<\/b>, where he often highlights <b>with exaggeration and irony the contradictions of political discourse<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h3>The sharp comment<\/h3>\n<p>Voularinos: &#8220;Let&#8217;s go listen to the deputy secretary of PASOK&#8217;s institutions sector, talking about justice: &#8216;Tzavellas is in consultation with Maximou, I understand that. Do you have proof of this? You don&#8217;t need proof, you need to see the institutional functioning&#8221;. You don&#8217;t need proof. What do we need proof for? It&#8217;s for the wimps, the Mr. Pants. They want to work with Syriza and they have to fit in somehow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Watch the video<\/h3>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"el\" dir=\"ltr\">Voularinos: &#8220;Let&#8217;s go listen to the deputy secretary of PASOK&#8217;s institutions sector, talking about justice: &#8216;Tzavellas is in consultation with Mega Maximou, that&#8217;s what I understand. Do you have proof of this? You don&#8217;t need proof, you need to see the institutional&#8230; pic.twitter.com\/eIWWfL1mBx<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; tomanifesto.gr (@tomanifesto) April 30, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&lt;\/html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manos Voularinos trolls a political statement by a PASOK member on Justice and the Maximos Mansion, commenting on the phrase &#8220;not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3449","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\/3449","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=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}