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Do it like… Pantelis Oikonomou. The withdrawal of Giorgos Katrugalos from the campaign trail following his statements about the self-employed insurance premiums and SYRIZA’s harsh criticism of them reminds us of the fate of Pantelis Oikonomou in 1993, one of the most influential – at the time – PASOK officials. Pantelis Oikonomou was announced at the time as a supporter of repo taxation, which caused public disapproval from Andreas Papandreou himself. Needless to say, Mr. Economos’s failure to get elected in the always difficult A’Athens was largely due to this. Thirty years later, the rule is confirmed that before the elections it is much better … to chew than to talk.

DILEMMA

“Progressive citizens of our country have no reason to vote for those who constantly give gifts and sponsor Mr. Mitsotakis. The leadership of SYRIZA has failed. His people have a choice: PASOK. Because only we can win in North Dakota.” This post by Pavlos Christidis, the candidate of the South sector of Athens and a former representative of the party, although it seems at least general, actually externalizes, even in a hidden form, a dilemma that they did not solve in PASOK. While it is clear from a pre-election point of view that PASOK cannot lean too far to the right or left, Harilaou Trikoupi is divided on the strategic direction. However, Mr. Christidis clearly supports the view that PASOK’s strategic goal should be to repatriate as many of those voters as possible who have lost massively to SYRIZA since 2012 and 2015. It will show.

FACE

Michalis Chrysochoidis was in Peristeri, where he held his central election campaign. Interestingly, with two days left before the elections, Mr. Chrysochoidis, a man with a cult past in PASOK (he even became secretary of the party’s Central Committee), runs without difficulty as a ND candidate. . in the western suburbs. Of course, we will see the result, as some very experienced neo-democratic officials will descend on the Western Sector. However, cases like the case of Mr. Chrysochoidis epitomize the openness of N.D. towards the center, that is, where Kyriakos Mitsotakis was aiming from the very beginning. The 68-year-old politician, in addition to his reputation as an effective minister of public order or the protection of citizens, delivers a truly secular speech. Maybe that’s why the Peristeri Exhibition and Convention Center was filled with people who wanted to hear it. It is also interesting that the regional governor of Attica, Giorgos Patoulis, and the two mayors of the constituency of Mr. Chrysochoidis, namely Andreas Pachaturidis of Peristeri and Stavros Tsirbas of the unified municipality of Agios Anargyro-Kamaterou, were there. It is at least an interesting bet on the performance in the cross battle by former Paskos such as Mr. Chrysochoidis and Kyriakos Pierrakakis in Sunday’s elections.

PLACE

The political center is the electoral destination that all three top parties in parliament want to reach first. As we have said, speeches by candidates with references to the centre-left are also critical to the balance of the next day of the government of North Dakota. Of interest in the conclusions regarding citizens who define themselves as centrists is the second stage of the Alko survey on behalf of the Alfa TV channel. Based on this particular measurement, N.D. and PASOK are equal, as these two parties are preferred by 26% of citizens who define themselves as centrists, and SYRIZA comes in third with 20%. 19% answered “other” and 9% found it difficult to answer. It remains to be seen whether the numbers reflect only a snapshot or a deeper trend.

ATTACK

“I have told you many times that I belong to this faction since childhood. Many others have come full circle. It is said that Churchill said: when you are young, you should be on the left, and when you grow up, be right or centre-right. I was not a left child. I’ve always been in New Democracy since I was a kid.” This is a quote from a recent campaign rally by Nikos Dendias in Alimos. Who’s not in N.D. from a small child and made a full circle to get to her? I think the participants understood as well as the missing purpose of the clue.