President of PASOK-Movement for Change spoke in Tripoli on Saturday evening Nikos Androulakis.

Ahead of the June 25 elections, Mr Androulakis urged voters from the center and the left to vote for PASOK: “The duty is not only to make PASOK a little bigger, not only to increase our parliamentary power, but to build again the home of every democrat and progressive Greek. That is why I call on all the progressive left, centre-left, centre-left to come back and support this new effort to have a real opponent against the New Democracy.”

Commenting on the fall of SYRIZA and the rise of PASOK at the polls on May 21, Mr. Androulakis noted that “the Greek people have responded to the false dilemmas of the first Sunday regarding the PASOK SYRIZA and New Democracy petition, so now to answer the extortion dilemmas of Mr. Mitsotakis. No risk of anarchy. There is a danger of omnipotence. Therefore, vote for PASOK and the Democratic faction, so that there is an embankment in the arrogance of the New Democracy system of government.”

After launching an attack on Piraeus, Mr. Androulakis said that the ND had “collected all ofsix apartment buildingslet him take Mr. Velopoulos and those who sell Christian goods and make a government that truly expresses the New Democracy: Deep Preservation.”

He then turned his fire on SYRIZA and personally on Alexis Tsipras: “I invite the left to join us to create a strong front against the New Democracy. Leftists who were offended by Mr. Tsipras when he did not vote for an amendment that prevented Pavlos Fyssas’ assassins, the Golden Dawn, and then – three days before the election – called on the allegedly misguided Golden Dawn participants to support SYRIZA. Shame on you, Mr Tsipras.”

Mr. Androulakis commented sharply on Dora Bakoyannis’ trip to Thrace, as well as the attitude of the SYRIZA leadership, noting: “I heard in the video Ms. Bakoyannis speaking to Greek citizens in the language of the old party clients of the 1960s, one that should be left behind if we want to become a modern European country that respects human rights. But, on the other hand, the leaders of SYRIZA should also tell us how they tolerate it when their leaders talk about the “Turkish” minority in Thrace, and, in addition, answer why they did not vote for the law on the election of a mufti last summer. We are the party that broke the bars. We are the party that opened the universities to Greek Muslims. We are the party of European normality, respect for the rule of law, separation of powers. This game with Andreas Papandreou and Kostas Simitis gave Thrace the opportunity to become a modern region of Europe. Without inequality and discrimination.”

He concluded by addressing the issue of ethics in political life, releasing wise men on both sides: “One defended his environment and himself in an incredible wiretapping scandal that set us back decades. The other spared his closest associate, convicted by the Special Court 13:0. I promise that I will never make such a disdainful choice for you and justice. There is no place next to us for a single person who will damage this new path. Anyone who harms the Greek people will get off the train of the Democratic Party. And I swear here from Tripoli that this new course will not lead to deals. It’s a course of honesty, ethics and consistency.”

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