In an informal truce, at least until the May 21 elections, leadership attitudes PASOK To Andrea Loverdo. The crisis that occurred immediately after his reports Nikos Androulakis political figure for the office of prime minister, but not Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Mr. Alexis Tsipras, should be considered in a recession, although both sides have made it clear in their statements that their decision not to pull the rope further concerns now.

It is more than clear that the issues brought up for discussion and the dissent expressed will return immediately after the first pre-election struggle, perhaps more decisively, depending on the election results.

Andreas Loverdos appears as the informal leader of a direction within PASOK that rejects any prospect of cooperation with SYRIZA. He has repeatedly expressed his disagreement with the equal distance strategy, which Mr. Androulakis has largely chosen. Thus, the post-election debate about options will bring different approaches back to the fore.

Provided that the party manages to come out stronger in relation to the 2019 elections and get a double-digit percentage. Because otherwise, Mr. Androulakis said that he would not discuss the possibility of participating in the cooperation government, and his overall strategy in the pre-election period would be called into question.

Breaks in the past

This is not the first time that PASOK has found itself in a “belligerent” environment on its way to elections. Against. The party, which has survived its period of absolute dominance in the political life of the country with the undisputed leader Andreas Papandreou, an absolute sovereign and capable of rebuffing the slightest movements of doubt in their inception, has been plunged into confusion several times since 2007 because of the summit. conflicts.

The “velvet” change from Kostas Simitis to George Papandreou was the last time we had a leadership change without a hard confrontation.

In 2007, when PASOK lost the election, Evangelos Venizelos ran for Zappeio, opening a front with George Papandreou, who nonetheless won the election.

Mr. Papandreou threatened Mr. Venizelos with expulsion when he tried to set up an analysis group and eventually backed down.

In 2012, with the party significantly reduced in strength due to memos, Evangelos Venizelos replaced George Papandreou in leadership.

However, relations between them were never normalized. The confrontation culminated before the elections in January 2015 and led to a split in the party when Mr. Papandreou set about creating KIDISO, which failed to enter Parliament and participated as a component in the creation of KINAL in 2018, through which Mr. Papandreou returned to parliament. Mr. Venizelos’ relationship with Andreas Loverdos, whom he expelled from PASOK in December 2012, also began to deteriorate with Mr. Loverdos’ founding of the Social Democratic Alliance Radical Movement.

The formation evolved into the Accord for New Greece and participated as a component in the creation of Elia in March 2014 and later in KINAL. Fofi Jennimata, who won the internal party elections in 2015, broke with Evangelos Venizelos, who finally left KINAL in June 2019.