2024-05-27 15:56:26
On a private stage, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Stefanos Kasselakis and Nikos Androulakis conflict within the closing stretch for the June 9 polls. What is needed is the best potential mobilization of voters and the strengthening of the “fan mentality” of the get together viewers.
“All towards all” towards the backdrop of the European elections
By Dora Antoniou
On the stage of political leaders, the ever-escalating confrontation between ND, SYRIZA and PASOK, which takes form by way of “all towards all” within the closing stretch to the polls, is shifting. On condition that Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Stefanos Kasselakis and Nikos Androulakis, in a technique or one other, for the remaining time are coming ahead, taking over the largest burden of the election marketing campaign, the trouble to spotlight the weaknesses of the opponents is transferred to the middle of the political scene. The sharpening of the confrontation clearly serves the objective of the best potential rallying of voters and strengthening the “fan mentality” of the get together viewers. Kyriakos Mitsotakis dismisses Stefanos Kasselakis for life-style politics and incoherent speech, whereas attributing to him that each he and Nikos Androulakis don’t speak concerning the points associated to Europe and the criticality of the European elections.
The president of SYRIZA maintains the entrance with the federal government, whereas sharpening the confrontation with PASOK by declaring that he’ll ask get together officers to go away it and be part of the principle opposition get together. In Harilaou Trikoupi, they spotlight initiatives and political actions that they think about to have precipitated cracks within the authorities’s picture of omnipotence, which they abandon for conceitedness, whereas they credit score Stefanos Kasselakis with spectacular strikes to get out of political isolation.
KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS
Excessive tones for “apolitical populism”
By Stavros Papantoniou
About two weeks earlier than the European elections, Kyriakos Mitsotakis attacked Stefanos Kasselakis yesterday with ferocity, elevating the temperature of a “lukewarm” pre-election race. Throughout his interview at Open, the prime minister accused the president of SYRIZA of giving a speech “which is incoherent” and “shall be judged by the Greek individuals”, calling on Mr. Kasselakis “to not be so simplistic as a way to keep inner get together balances ».
He additionally left a really onerous level about the way in which he politicizes, noting that he makes use of an “apolitical populism” and including that “I personally insist on the costing of his program” and “on political criticism, which has its measure”. The criticism of Mr. Kasselakis didn’t cease there, exhibiting that it was not within the move of speech, however focused. At one other level in his interview, he spoke of “life-style populism that comes and intersects with the worst days of SYRIZA, which demanded all the things from everybody and introduced the nation to the brink of chapter”, whereas he referred to as on Mr. Kasselakis to have “slightly extra modesty and fewer complacency,” accusing him of “turning Web trolls into official political place.”
By means of assaults on Kasselakis, Maximou desires to activate the reflexes of the center-right voters and in addition to compress the odds of SYRIZA.
Koumoundourou
Shortly after, Koumoundourou “raised the gauntlet” and attacked Mr. Mitsotakis with an in depth press launch, saying that the prime minister is “disturbed” by the documented positions of the official opposition chief “who, as a substitute of sending meaningless letters to the Fee, listens to the issues of the residents and proposes critical options”, and “is aware of that he is not going to achieve hindering the dynamics of SYRIZA and the battle of its president for a greater life for the Greek individuals”.
It’s clear that within the closing stretch the prime minister desires to lift the tone and by attacking Stefanos Kasselakis particularly, he serves two primary political objectives: firstly, to activate the reflexes of the center-right and ship them to the poll field by reminding them of who they concern as an opponent and, secondly , to squeeze SYRIZA as a lot as potential, as a key objective of the federal government just isn’t solely 33% and above, but additionally the distinction it’s going to have from the second get together to be near the one which existed within the nationwide elections. On the similar time, nonetheless, the prime minister “didn’t overlook” to open hearth towards Nikos Androulakis, saying that the president of PASOK – in addition to of SYRIZA – doesn’t say the slightest factor “about what is going to occur the subsequent day in Europe. Will we’ve a brand new Restoration Fund? Are we going to have a unified protection coverage to have a unified missile protection system?” Mr. Mitsotakis was in fact additionally talked about on the suitable, characterizing each Dimitris Natsios and Kyriakos Velopoulos as “patriots”, which helps him in his central goal of getting himself and the ND seem. as “the one dependable answer for the nation”.
STEFANOS KASSELAKIS
No bridge with the New Left
By Antonis Anzoletou
The “trenches” battle within the “leftist house constructing” is heating up because the polls strategy. The president of SYRIZA, Stefanos Kasselakis, from the “slanted glances” he forged at Zoi Konstantopoulou, within the interview he gave to Attica TV, went a step additional: “I disagree together with her perspective in the direction of the Prespas, however normally, philosophically, culturally, I believe that they’re an excellent workforce and I hope we will work collectively for the nice of the nation.” The top of Plevsis Eleftheria appears decided to proceed her unbiased course, after she stated on Actual FM on Tuesday about Stefanos Kasselakis: “This man is heaven-descended. He has come to Greece very not too long ago. He thus has a picture of a political vacationer.”
Attracting unconventional voters, the president of SYRIZA sees commonalities in his rhetoric with Zoe Konstantopoulou. In spite of everything, the president of Plefsis Eleftherias had said that “we’re neither wanting left nor proper, we’re wanting ahead”, whereas each deal with problems with corruption. Is he investing in a post-election partnership? It’s extra possible that he’s making an attempt to fish for votes from a standard “pool” of voters. In the identical interview, he additionally referred to Yanis Varoufakis, stressing that “too many younger persons are energetic in MeRA25 and in Freedom Crusing, who need a motion”. The previous finance minister’s response to Parapolitical FM was additionally not constructive: “There shall be no invitation from Mr. Kasselakis. Does Mr. Kasselakis know that if he invitations MeRA25 to debate, they are going to lower off his international alternate because the oligarchs used to say.” The openings of the brand new president should not considered favorably by get together officers who had clashed with him earlier than the congress. Kostas Zachariadis informed Motion 24 that “you’ll be able to’t say in the identical sentence that we do not wish to be like 2015 and proper under that you simply discuss Ms. Konstantopoulou and Mr. Varoufakis. Effectively, you have not understood what the issue of ’15 is.”
They reject the openings of the president of SYRIZA, Zoe Konstantopoulou and Yanis Varoufakis – Reactions additionally inside SYRIZA.
The place Stefanos Kasselakis cuts each bridge and the polemic stays excessive is with the executives who left SYRIZA and fashioned the New Left. He spoke of “an enormous hug to the entire progressive world and to former comrades who could have been disillusioned with SYRIZA. I’m not referring to the officers within the Parliament”, he clarified. From the New Left they “nailed” the previous accomplice – president, stressing: “Mr. Kasselakis introduced that he wouldn’t have an issue with a potential candidacy of Mr. Mitsotakis for the presidency of the Fee. Feedback are pointless. Leftist and progressive residents pay attention and choose.” All this mobility is monitored from a distance by the KKE.
Sustaining the entrance towards the prime minister, Mr. Kasselakis questioned whether or not the progressive residents who voted for him “approve the phrases of far-right ministers”, whereas for PASOK he referred to its executives who’re a “supply of human assets” for the ND.
NIKOS ANDROULAKIS
“I did not sleep due to the unhappiness”
By Dora Antoniou
As a fairly anticipated determined try by the president of SYRIZA to get into the body of the talk on the way forward for the Heart-Left house, PASOK is “studying” the reviews of Stefanos Kasselakis in an invite to executives of Harilaou Trikoupis to maneuver to the principle opposition get together. Nikos Androulakis responded mockingly, saying (SKAI) that “I did not sleep all night time due to my misery that he will not name me”. And he made certain so as to add that if PASOK emerges strengthened from the June 9 poll, it may possibly unite the progressive world towards conservation. “As a result of, on the desk the place we are going to sit politically, ideologically, institutionally to type this entrance, different individuals can come. Nobody can go to Mr. Kasselaki’s desk, they’ve already left.”
Within the closing stretch earlier than the European elections, the workers of Nikos Androulakis see behind Kasselakis’ statements an try to trigger inner turmoil in PASOK, as a way to reap electoral advantages for SYRIZA. They imagine, nonetheless, that it’s a futile effort that falls into the void, as there isn’t a one in PASOK to reply. In addition they notice that in his interview yesterday, the president of SYRIZA appeared because the scion of a real Pasok household, with a grandfather within the KKE. “In all probability they see one thing within the polls in Koumoundourou and notice that neither the Heart nor the Left have one of the best picture of Kasselakis. That is why he’s as soon as once more adjusting his profile attempting to achieve them,” they remark.
The response of the president of PASOK to the invitation to Harilaou Trikoupis executives to maneuver to the official opposition get together.
Nikos Androulakis additionally proceeded to investigate political initiatives and actions: “I need you to inform me an initiative taken by Mr. Kasselakis that precipitated a trauma to the politics of the ND. With us, in the summertime of 2022 half of Maximos left. Within the municipal elections with our candidates, they misplaced all the massive municipalities. A month in the past I made a movement of no confidence and half of Maximus left once more. For those who bear in mind, within the movement of no confidence it stated that there shall be cockfights,” he underlined. From Koumoundourou, they have been fast to remark that the president of SYRIZA is submitting proposals and creating debate within the Greek political scene.
On the similar time, the president of PASOK pointed his arrows on the authorities and the prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, talking of a failure to cope with accuracy, whereas he questioned the modernizing narrative of the ND, referring to the delay in appointing ASEP’s successors. Concerning the Prespa settlement, he emphasised that it has problematic factors by way of citizenship and language and the absence of a mechanism to oversee its implementation. On the similar time, he described as a mistake the accompanying protocols to be ratified now, as requested by SYRIZA. As he stated, on this method, redemptionism shall be justified. In truth, he characterised the insistence of the principle opposition get together on the problem as ideological.
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