Political leaders take to the streets as the time is up elections party headquarters North Dakota, SYRIZA And PASOK they have a busy touring schedule. Each side targets specific areas, based on performance and aspirations. N.D. and PASOK focus on the pool, while SYRIZA aims to strengthen its presence in the blue “castles”.

Enterprise “Neighbourhood of Attica” for N.D.

Stavros Papantoniou

Last week, the first tour of Mr. Mitsotakis after the accident in Tempe, he was in Marousi. Glyfada followed her, and yesterday Gerakas. The sequence of visits reflects Maxim’s desire to make himself big before elections in the Attica Basin, where almost half of the electorate already votes.

However, this particular targeting also has a numerical explanation. All surveys reaching Maximos Palace recently it has been shown that the biggest “damage” after Tempi is recorded in Attica, with the fall of N.D. reach even four units, in contrast to the Greek region, where the percentages of ND they remain almost untouched compared to 2019. This particular conclusion leads the ruling faction to prioritize elections in Attica as well as other major urban centers such as Thessaloniki.

Planning

Therefore, in the 50 days remaining before the elections, the Prime Minister plans to visit many parts of Attica. Baironas, Chalandri, Paleo Faliro, Egaleo, Peristeri, Alimos and Piraeus are just some of the municipalities where the Prime Minister will deliver a speech. “The plan is to visit as many areas as possible.” says government official “K”.with the “program” that came out for the next period, showing the targeting of municipalities with more popular characteristics, which in several cases elected the mayor from the left in the last elections, such as Byronas and Chalandri.

Maximou targets municipalities with more populist characteristics, where on several occasions they have elected a mayor from the left in the last elections.

In Thessaloniki

At the same time, according to government sources, the Prime Minister will be in Thessaloniki at least twice more, both in its urban center and in the more “regional” 2nd Thessaloniki. The first constituency of Thessaloniki, as all the focus groups have shown, has begun to lose its traditional features and is increasingly approaching Attica in its electoral behavior, which means it needs special attention.

The emphasis to be placed on urban centers does not mean that the prime minister will not also tour the region, which is New Democracy’s comparative advantage, as predicted. Today The Prime Minister will visit Evros in the light of the initiative of the SYRIZA MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis that there will be no additional funding for the fence, and next Wednesday it will be in Ioannina. Next week, which is also Holy Week, he will be in Mytilene, and after Easter, he plans to visit Corfu and the South Aegean. The selection of regions is based on the main criterion of which region Mr Mitsotakis has not visited recently, with government sources saying the goal is to cover the area by the time of the election. Finally, with regard to the central speeches of the prime minister, without a final decision, it seems that Maximos will move towards a lower level, that is, one in Athens and one in Thessaloniki.

Aimed at the “blue fortresses”.

Antonis Anzoletou

The fact that representatives of the Administrative Department and Political Planning are meeting day after day in Kumunduru indicates a great mobilization of the mechanism SYRIZA on the eve of the elections. A division of the main areas of work has been made. On the agenda of his tour Alexis Tsipras given that Parliament will be closed after Easter. His presence in at least two destinations ended weekly. Today in Kalamata, he will hold the first big campaign rally since the Tempi accident, putting a “stigma” that will follow until the election. He will perform in the castle prefecture of New Democracy, which he lost by 14 points in 2019. The choice is not accidental, since a month ago the President of SYRIZA “plowed through” Western Macedonia, where there are also important “fortresses” of the “blue” faction.

The results of the September 2015 elections serve as a benchmark for the movement of the party in geographical terms, a typical example is Pella, where the official leader of the opposition was found four months ago. He may have lost by a wide margin four years ago (ND 42.29%, SYRIZA 28.52%), but this is an area where Alexis Tsipras’s party managed to win the second time it came to power.

The strategy is specific: infiltrate areas where the blue faction has the most power, “reconquer” regions where the differences were small in 2019, and guard the 10 “Syrizaian castles” that remain pink. Western Attica, Western Athens, Second Piraeus, Chania, Heraklion, Rethymno, Lassithi, Achaia, Arta and Xanthi form the core, with Koumunduru taking care to strengthen the specific ballots so that there are no “unpleasant surprises”. There is no detailed schedule for the President’s tours, as they are scheduled bi-weekly. It is certain that he will also be in the island country – he has already visited Tilos on the occasion of March 25 – while it is considered certain that in the last days he will focus on the prefecture of Attica, Athens, Thessaloniki and several other major cities.

More than 300 candidates for deputies have already been announced and have begun their election campaign. The offices of affiliates and prefectural committees are permanently open and in the near future they will have in their hands the main “tips” of the SYRIZA program, which they will undertake to convey to the whole world. Senior leaders outside their neighborhoods have committed to traveling frequently to different cities to engage in dialogue with citizens. Party events are dense and daily. Of the approximately 100 names yet to be announced, 80 have already been “blocked”. What remains are the last contacts and a few faces that Alexis Tsipras decided to see before they are officially announced. The “new arrivals” will very soon be integrated into the election campaign.

Tours, performances and e-campaign

Dora Antoniou

His visit Nikos Androulakis in Lamia today begins a new round of pre-election visits to the region, as at the last stage of the elections and with the setting of their date, his leadership team PASOK will seek to cover previously unvisited areas. So Mr. Androulakis will be in Serra tomorrow and visits are planned next week. Immediately after the dissolution of parliament and the official start of the pre-election period, the goal is to concentrate tours in the largest urban centers such as Larisa, Patra, Kavala, where Mr. Androulakis also plans to make speeches in large pre-election gatherings.

At the same time, since Harilaou Trikoupis believes that the path to a significant increase in the membership of the party lies through the basin, Mr. Androulakis is planning as many small tours as possible in the regions of Attica. In PASOK, a large decline in percentages was accompanied by heavy losses in electoral regions of the basin, such as Western Attica, where it has traditionally collected particularly high percentages. The fact that in previous elections its percentages in the regions of Attica were significantly lower than the average for the territory shows the importance of the party being able to restore some of the voters.
Thus, planned thematic events will take place in Attica, which will be targeted at specific groups: youth, pensioners, women, with a discussion of the proposals and the program of the party, specifically addressed to each of these sub-categories of the electoral body.

Great importance is also attached to online election campaigning, where the first election video has already begun to be shown. At the same time, social media users are encouraged to keep abreast of the party’s proposals and ask questions, concerns, thoughts. For the second year, it is planned to organize an online debate via YouTube, where Mr. Androulakis will answer questions from citizens.

PASOK’s big electoral event, which will end the campaign on Friday, May 19, is scheduled to take place in Heraklion, Crete, given Nikos Androulakis’ special relationship with the city. An agreement is expected to be reached in the inter-party committee on the date when the party will hold its flagship event in Athens, which is expected to take place on Wednesday 17 May. It will be preceded on May 15 by an election rally in Thessaloniki.

However, the PASOK Campaign emphasizes that in the last stretch of the road to the elections, the goal is to communicate with voters as much as possible, to answer their questions and concerns as directly as possible and to make it clear that the party has detailed proposals on all major issues. and also to solve the problems of everyday life.