Since 11.46% in the previous elections is “an undeniable achievement”, according to the definition of the party representative, PASOK is entering the pre-election campaign for re-elections.

The main task of Harilaou Trikoupis team leadership is to close any cracks that the opponents are trying to create at the starting point of this course and form a new, clear, distinct signal with which he will seek to increase his percentage. .

Thus, the main challenge is to draw clear dividing lines for an autonomous path to elections, with the main message being that PASOK “does not identify itself differently to other parties, it is here, standing on its own feet and has a clear proposal requires the trust of the citizens”. In this process, party officials already see “traps” set by political opponents. From N.D. they see an attempt to discredit PASOK’s prospect of becoming a strong pole at the center of the political system. And from the side of SYRIZA they already see that the official opposition party will seek to “defend itself” against PASOK, attributing to it the intention of government cooperation with the ND.

Nikos Androulakis himself opposes these “traps” to make it clear that the goal of PASOK is to become a pole of significant opposition only with a right-wing front, that the party has the experience and “know-how” to achieve one or another prospect of post-election cooperation with the ND.

In this election campaign, according to officials close to Nikos Androulakis, PASOK will go with all its weapons:

1. Who we are: The new faces that emerged before the first vote will continue to play a leading role. They will be joined by new deputies who have won the battle of the cross. “We will show that we are betting on the renewal of reality. We have a new group of deputies, with new faces, clean, with serious resumes, with a personal path, without a party “dowry”, which successfully fought and found a response in local communities.

2. What we recommend: program, program, program, repeat monotonously in Harilaou Trikoupi. They attribute part of the success in the first vote to the promotion of the program and will insist on it, as they believe that clear, realistic, cost-effective proposals find an audience and are a point of superiority over the official opposition party, which they consider unable to speak convincingly about real needs. citizens.

Harilaou Trikoupi’s goal is to become the pole of significant opposition to the ND.

3. Our political culture: This is the stated intention not to waste the party on meaningless dogfights. “Clear orientation, our front with ND, we can stand in front and question the success of the practiced policy with arguments and numbers, we have an alternative,” as they say. This does not mean that any call to SYRIZA will go unanswered. “However, opening or maintaining a front there is not our priority.”

It may not be blunt, but PASOK’s second battle also speaks to the ire of old party voters. The “total restoration” of the green sun, green flags and Nikos Androulakis’ insistent references to “the historic seat of Harilaou Trikoupis” last Sunday evening, the slogan “PASOK is here, united, strong” are all aimed at disrupting the memory of the PASOK-ND front . an audience that politically came of age with him and probably misses him.

With regard to individual campaign objectives, the qualitative characteristics of the first vote were carefully analyzed to identify the reasons for better results in some areas and shortcomings in others. PASOK confirmed the feeling that existed in the previous period that the party in the region feels much better than in Attica. The six regions where the party managed to defeat SYRIZA and come in second place (Lasithi, Rethymnon, Chios, Laconia, Drama and Kilkis) are exemplary.

The key challenge for the next vote is to maintain that image – the most precarious margin in Rethymnon, where the battle was fought by ballot, and in the end PASOK led with 21.47%, and SYRIZA came in second with 21.03%. Harilaou Trikoupi believes that momentum can be used.

“Thorn”

And, of course, Attica remains a big “splinter”. In no constituency in the basin, the party managed to score double-digit percentages. “This confirms the picture we had before, it was not a surprise. But now we can “talk” to voters in these constituencies on different terms,” says a party official.