In your legacy Andrea Papandreou mentioned with your post the president of SYRIZA-PS, Stefanos Kasselakis, on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the death of the former prime minister.
“Andreas’ legacy is here, it is the responsibility of progressive forces to follow it”, emphasizes the president of SYRIZA.
“Both the triptych ‘National Independence – Popular Sovereignty – Social Liberation’ and the progressive ‘Change’ were not empty slogans,” notes Mr. Kasselakis and adds: “They expressed a popular and national need that remains to this day as relevant as always. And today they are focused on the “patriotic left”. The path opened by Andreas remains current and necessary, although many of his descendants have forgotten him.
The political visionary of the great progressive “Change”
In its declaration it also states: “National Independence, Popular Sovereignty, Social Liberation. Today marks 28 years since the death of Andreas Papandreou. The political visionary of the great progressive “Change”. More relevant than ever, he taught us how to achieve convergence, without compromises and bargains, but with unity. After all, it is people who lead to convergences and not closed offices. He united the Venizelogan center, the Eamian leftist tradition, the generation of 114, the PAK, giving rise to the movement that at the time expressed the popular majority, the excluded, the disadvantaged, those persecuted by the right-wing State.
In the exercise of true politics, he demonstrated that he can operate without compromise in light of the national interest and the rights of the people, being a member of the EU and NATO. Yasser Arafat was the first leader to visit Andreas Papandreou in Athens. And Andreas Papandreou was the first European leader to build friendly relations with the Arab world.
Its projects are national reconciliation, the continuous institutional and social effort for equality between the two sexes, support for the most disadvantaged, the National Social Security System. The liberation of social groups that the maintenance of the right-wing State held captive.
The case of Andreas Papandreou proved that when the thought is deep and the will is strong, addressing citizens with simple and understandable words is anything but slogans or populism.”
Change, national reconciliation, the progressive world in power.
Andreas’ legacy is here, it is the responsibility of progressive forces to follow it.
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– Stefanos Kasselakis (@skasselakis) June 23, 2024