{"id":9962,"date":"2026-06-10T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=9962"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:53:00","slug":"stelios-pecas-we-are-the-best-political-force-to-face-this-storm-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=9962","title":{"rendered":"Stelios Pecas: We are the best political force to face this storm (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"265\"> Stelios Petsas estimated that elections will be held in March, citing the Greek presidency of the EU, while backing New Democracy as the most suitable governing force.<strong data-start=\"267\" data-end=\"282\"><\/strong><br data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"285\"> <\/p>\n<p> &lt;h3 <\/p>\n<h3 data-end=\"265\" data-start=\"65\"> <strong data-start=\"285\" data-end=\"348\">Petsas: The EU presidency, decisive factor for the ballot box<\/strong> <\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"350\" data-end=\"572\">The assessment that the <strong data-start=\"370\" data-end=\"381\">elections<\/strong> will not be held in <strong data-start=\"403\" data-end=\"416\">autumn<\/strong>, but probably in <strong data-start=\"438\" data-end=\"448\">March<\/strong>, said <strong data-start=\"462\" data-end=\"480\">Stelios Pechas<\/strong>, a member of the <strong data-start=\"496\" data-end=\"516\">New Democracy<\/strong>, speaking on <em data-start=\"540\" data-end=\"553\">Action NOW<\/em> of <strong data-start=\"558\" data-end=\"571\">Action 24<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"574\" data-end=\"1066\">He said he does not consider this to be <strong data-start=\"617\" data-end=\"636\">an early election<\/strong>, as there are <strong data-start=\"653\" data-end=\"680\">objective conditions<\/strong> that require it to be scheduled on a specific time horizon. 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It&#8217;s not an early election when we know that because of objective circumstances, i.e. Greece takes over the presidency of the EU on July 1 and we have to have the election&#8230; pic.twitter.com\/9H1SJ5p0sI<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; tomanifesto.gr (@tomanifesto) June 10, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Stelios Petsas estimated that the elections will be held in March, citing the Greek presidency of the EU, while he backed New Democracy as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9962","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\/9962","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=9962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}