The second election campaign turns into a personal race between political leaders for the highest possible result – each to his own – in the June 25 elections.

With a busy schedule of tours and excursions, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Alexis Tsipras and Nikos Androulakis face the dilemmas of this second election contest with the dual goal of mobilizing voters to vote as it is considered highly likely that abstentions will increase in a repeat election and second, to convince that their offer is the best.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis first, the second cycle of tours and visits began, with N.D. continue the election campaign in the same spirit as before May 21. At the same time, the main stake is stability, so that the changes necessary for the country can continue. Mr. Mitsotakis, in his speeches last week, sought to convey the message that, despite the big margin, the ND had won. the first election, the final result has not yet been determined, the battle is still open, and therefore it is imperative that citizens return to the polls. “This victory is incomplete. It will end on the evening of June 25th. Then our work will be completed,” he said in a speech in Heraklion in Crete. In fact, he emphasized that there is no room for complacency, since there is a possibility that more parties will enter parliament in the repeat elections, which will affect the leverage of self-reliance. And he set himself the goal “not just to reach the percentage that we achieved in the elections, but to surpass it.”

Mr. Mitsotakis presents his party as a responsible force because, he said, “it has both the will and the will to take charge of governance,” and he offered experience in government and managing major crises as superiority. “We know how to effectively run the country. We learned from our mistakes. We are all more experienced, and I myself know much more today than I did in 2019,” he said.

At the same time, Alexis Tsipras he aims in his first speeches and public positions in the new election campaign to send the message that he and his party received the message of the first ballot box and managed to quickly change in order to become convincing in his proposal to voters. The President of SYRIZA, in his speech in Nice, proposed this element, which he summarized with the phrase “we are changing, we are strengthening and we are moving forward”. Mr. Tsipras returned to the anti-systemic origins of SYRIZA, speaking of centers of power “who once again plan to write us off”, and also left the sharp points of PASOK, speaking of the desire to return “a convenient, controlled, systemic bipartisanship.”

The head of SYRIZA, seeking to hush up the painful outcome of the first vote, which could give the impression that everything is decided, and discourage voters from going to the polls, speaks of a “second, completely separate election battle”, which characterized, in fact, as “more critical “.

It is no coincidence that Mr. Tsipras began his speeches from Nice, and it is no coincidence that today, Friday, he visits Agios Anargyros and Haidari, since SYRIZA recorded a large retreat of its power in the popular areas of western Attica, where it was considered that it had a great strength.

From Nice, he also addressed the voters of the smaller parties, asking them to elect SYRIZA in the second round of voting, because, in his words, “N.D. and his propaganda apparatus wants many small and weak parties against him.”

Nikos Androulakis, as it became clear from his public positions after the first election campaign, he seeks to revive the PASOK-ND duopoly, while harshly criticizing SYRIZA for failing to form an effective opposition that strengthened the ND. and reiterating that only a stronger PASOK can become a bulwark against the ND government.

Indicative is his report from Chios, where he called on citizens to vote for PASOK, “so that N.D. was the real enemy. and not his “gold sponsor”, as he emphasized.

The PASOK president seeks to mobilize voters and get them to vote for his party by putting forward a “social” agenda, which refers to a set of social policy dimensions that have strengthened PASOK during his leadership. For example, an increase in health care spending, a national high school diploma, a new EKAS for 350,000 retirees, etc.