Waiting for the last bulletins close in PASOK and the leading group of the party acts with the aim of mobilizing the party apparatus to the maximum on the last stretch of the path to elections. With the election date apparently set for April 9, there are less than 50 days left before the end of the election campaign.

As regards the ballots, the combinations were not announced in six electoral districts: in the single member constituencies of Evrytania, Samos, Zakynthos and Kastoria, as well as in Arcadia and Laconia. And, of course, the State Vote, which will be announced after the announcement of the elections. According to information from Harilaou Trikoupi, almost all outstanding issues are closed.

In single-member constituencies, given the improbability of a party to qualify for either, an attempt was made to galvanize and persuade leaders who would register a positive result between two major party candidates to become candidates. The same information says that the vote on Laconia is also closed, and the biggest unresolved issue remains in Arcadia, where the party leadership will have to make final decisions on the composition of the ballot.

About state voting, Nikos Androulakis he keeps his papers closed, and contacts with potential candidates are carefully and quietly made by him. The element of surprise is seen as important, and PASOK’s leadership doesn’t want to spoil it or risk targeting specific individuals by revealing names prematurely. As stated, the effort being made is to form a state ballot that will signal the party’s desire to express the centre-left’s progressive space with serious and recognized people for their personal path.

The choice of Mr. Androulakis to personally manage the approach to potential candidates is connected with an attempt to avoid intra-party friction due to a reaction that could cause the unpopularity of any candidate, as well as an element of surprise for the headquarters of the opposition party. His close collaborators took on the challenge, based on the core characteristics he had identified, to collect proposals in order to form the largest possible pool and have freedom of choice.

In any case, people from the PASOK President’s office are expected to be included in the state list, such as, for example, Secretary of the Central Committee Andreas Spyropoulos, press representative Dimitris Mantzos, head of the political planning department Panagiotis Dudonis. For a long time, the name of the lawyer Eleni Chronopoulou, who could be a candidate for foreign Hellenism in the state, has been heard for a long time. The name of the constitutional expert Nikos Alivisatos, with whom Mr. Androulakis maintains good relations, also sounds persistently.