{"id":4015,"date":"2026-05-05T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:43:00","slug":"pasok-race-to-resemble-syriza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4015","title":{"rendered":"PASOK: race to resemble SYRIZA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>castanid (o) 1. one who flees from where he is unwanted &#8220;I am not a donkey to be burdened by those who do not want me, so I become a castanid&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> 2. Insignificant loss &#8220;I can&#8217;t think of a single player in the team that if he leaves, he won&#8217;t be a Castanidis&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Heroic exit without changing anything<\/h3>\n<p>I understand the need for a heroic exit but in reality <b>Androulakis<\/b> had sacked fellow Castanidis long before he left. Not only did he take away his <b>parliamentary seat<\/b>, but he made sure to impose a rule (that of a maximum of 5 terms) that would not allow him to run again. So <b>Castanides&#8217; departure changes absolutely nothing. <\/b>It just allows the old PASOK executive to jump off a ship that even if it doesn&#8217;t sink is impossible to sail and for President Nicola to play leader without further grumbling until the elections in which all indications are that <b>PASOK will fight not for first place but for second or third<\/b> (not excluding a battle for fourth). Since the leadership team as a whole has decided that it wants the party to resemble SYRIZA, it will have to limit its expectations to Syriza-like figures.<\/p>\n<h3>Sensible absence<\/h3>\n<p>The absence of the front-runner Tsipras from the first episode of the documentary &#8220;At the Millennium&#8221; that aired yesterday on SKAI was finally particularly noticeable. As with all drama (and the memory of the attempt to blow up the country is particularly dramatic) it needed a comic note (what the Anglo-Saxons call &#8220;comic relief&#8221;) and the absence of the mastermind of the negotiation and referendum took it away.<\/p>\n<h3>E, not a &#8220;peddler&#8221; comrade<\/h3>\n<p>Comrade <b>Fanfarantouris<\/b> rightly felt that the word &#8220;peddlers&#8221;, which came out of Comrade Giannakopoulou&#8217;s mouth, did not apply to him. How is it possible to call a man a &#8220;peddler&#8221; who only in the last few years became a SYRIZA, supported <b>Kasselakis<\/b>, then sold him out, then flirted with the quantum doctor Karstianou from whom he ate noodle pie, then was kicked out of SYRIZA and finally ended up in PASOK? <\/p>\n<h3>Martyriaris<\/h3>\n<p>The fact that the US president himself described America&#8217;s actions as &#8220;pirate&#8221; proves that no amount of propaganda can do a country the harm that an incompetent and deranged leader can do to it.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;\/html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>castanidis (o) 1. one who leaves where he is unwanted &#8220;I am not a donkey to be burdened by those who do not want me and therefore I become &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","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=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}