{"id":3978,"date":"2026-05-05T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:45:00","slug":"the-polls-and-androulakis-neo-aurianism-toxicity-and-vulgar-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3978","title":{"rendered":"The polls and Androulakis&#8217; neo-Aurianism: toxicity and vulgar attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikos Androulakis is now operating in a <b>logic reminiscent of 1980s autrianism<\/b>, <b>Nikos Androulakis, <\/b>who seems to be operating in <b>panic mode.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The <b>poll<\/b> by <b>Opinion Poll <\/b>comes on top of a number of others that have preceded it this time that show that <b>toxicity<\/b> <b>and catastrophism are not giving ratings to<\/b> <b>PASOK<\/b> and the rest of the <b>opposition parties<\/b> with citizens turning a deaf ear to the sirens of <b>populism.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, <b>PASOK is barely getting some numbers that don&#8217;t even break the 15% to 16% ceiling<\/b> as the formation of <b>Alexis Tsipras&#8217;s new party<\/b> is expected while <b>Maria Karystianou<\/b> is also predicting announcements in the middle of the month.<\/p>\n<p>According to analysts&#8217; estimates, both parties, especially that of Alexis Tsipras, <b>may&#8230; may be able to take a bite out of PASOK&#8217;s ratings,<\/b>which means that<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <b>it<\/b>will lose<\/b>the even slight rise it has recorded<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <b>it<\/b>risks losing<\/b>even from the percentages it has recorded so far, moving between 12% and 13%<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <b>it<\/b>even risks <\/b>having to give a big battle for second place<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <b>the narrative of victory even with a single vote, which was set up in the logic of creating a positive climate within the party, is being demolished<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; d<b>conditions are being created for the return of introversion <\/b>to the forefront, since in the background it never left<\/p>\n<p>In this context, Androulakis <b>chooses tactics of neo-Aurianism<\/b> &#8211; as a continuation of the Aurianism of the 10 years of the 1980s &#8211; with <b>severe attacks against the prime minister on a personal and family level.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with ALPHA&#8217;s main news programme, he went so far as to accuse the prime minister of deflection. And while this is not the first time he has said this, he went on to show that he <b>does not intend to stop anywhere in his attempt to spice up<\/b> the political scene by copying Alexis Tsipras&#8217;s tactics under SYRIZA.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, raising the issue of&#8230; deflection, he said that <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/b> is &#8220;the prime minister of aberrations&#8221;, adding that he is &#8220;faithful to his family&#8217;s traditions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This alone shows the path that the &#8220;PASOK of Androulakis&#8221;, as <b>Charis Kastanidis<\/b> called it in his resignation letter<\/p>\n<p>, is taking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikos Androulakis, who seems to be operating in a panic mode, is now moving in a logic reminiscent of the 1980s autrianism.<br \/>\nThe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3978","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\/3978","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=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}