{"id":5946,"date":"2026-05-17T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5946"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:12:00","slug":"john-economou-new-democracy-is-the-womb-of-the-greek-centre-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5946","title":{"rendered":"John Economou: New Democracy is the womb of the Greek centre-right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\"> <b>Giannis Economou<\/b> has called for outreach to conservative voters who have distanced themselves from <b>New Democracy<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"4\">political need<\/b> for the party to re-attract its traditional supporters was underlined by <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"101\">Giannis Economou<\/b> from the podium of the <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"135\">16th Synedrio of the New Democracy<\/b>. The <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"174\">MParliamentarian from Fthiotida<\/b> sent a clear message to the leadership and executives, stressing that &#8220;our party, <b>New Democracy, must meet again with the conservative parts of our social and electoral base that have distanced themselves<\/b>, but have not definitively turned their backs on us&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> <b>Giannis Economou<\/b> said that &#8220;<b>our conservative base is indispensable. Reconnecting with them will expand the party&#8217;s boundaries<\/b>, because today the boundaries of the party are larger than the party&#8217;s boundaries. And this reconnection <b>in addition to being necessary is <b>also<\/b> entirely possible. Because our ties with this world are strong and unbreakable<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Economou, &#8220;<b>New Democracy is the matrix of the Greek center-right<\/b>. The centre-right that <b>historically has always raised a barrier to the patriotic right-wing extremists<\/b>, that has effectively confronted the <b>irresponsibility of the Left<\/b>, that has acted as a barrier against the <b>defective realism of the so-called radical centre<\/b>, which without a value-based background turns into cynicism.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yannis Economou called for reaching out to conservative voters who have distanced themselves from New Democracy.<br \/>\nThe political need to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5946","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\/5946","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=5946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}