{"id":3499,"date":"2026-05-01T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:19:00","slug":"tsipras-androulakis-measured-weighed-and-found-wanting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3499","title":{"rendered":"Tsipras-Androulakis: &#8220;measured, weighed and found wanting&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Their existential angst over 2nd place in the election leads them (no surprise) into the morass of toxicity.<\/p>\n<p><b>In tomorrow&#8217;s phraseology, Tsipras and Androulakis are trying tooth and nail to prove who is the most genuine spokesman for the once &#8220;up and down square&#8221;.  <\/b><\/p>\n<p>With expressions about &#8220;mafia&#8221; and &#8220;gang&#8221; and other such &#8220;democratic&#8221; expressions <b>they think that they will fool the people<\/b> or that the citizens have a short memory for the destroyer of the country Tsipras on the one hand and for the toxic and uneducated Androulakis on the other, <b>as long as it is whispered that in the elections he can at best be second<\/b> with a percentage close to 10% and at worst third or fourth, he reminds a caricature of Constantopoulou and Polakis.<\/p>\n<p>According to the government, &#8220;as far as the quality of discourse is concerned, they are competing for who will win the battle of the -as they call themselves and <b>think they have a monopoly<\/b>&#8211; &#8220;progressive and democratic space&#8221; and in fact they are competing for who will be the most genuine spokesman for the once up and down square. <\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;Traitors, Germans and other slogans<\/h2>\n<p>In the other battle, over &#8220;who will give the most&#8221; and who will be the most people-pleasing, &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid,&#8221; said government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis, &#8220;that <b>with what one will say to compete with the other and even Mr. Tsipras has a doctorate from the one in the bidding, PASOK is, I think, the biggest &#8216;university&#8217; <\/b>that gives the corresponding doctorates. <b>The 1980s and the Thessaloniki programme in the face of what we will hear from the so-called progressive sector and these two leaders, Mr Tsipras and Mr Androulakis, will look like a &#8216;calculated&#8217; policy and &#8216;costed&#8217; programmes.&#8221; <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Finally, government sources on Nikos Androulakis&#8217; insults and anti-establishment behaviour on the issue of filling the positions of the heads of the independent authorities, noted: <b>&#8220;The president of PASOK continued his political downhill slide, and even from the floor of the Greek Parliament, using insults and toxic rhetoric, which is no different from the cries of the extreme political forces.&#8221; <\/b><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Their existential angst for the second place in the elections leads them (no surprise) into the abyss of toxicity.With tomorrow&#8217;s phraseology, Tsipras and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3499","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\/3499","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=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}