In the final stretch before the opening of the second round of polls for the election of a new PASOK leadership, the presidential candidate, Harry Doukasexpressed confidence that he can pull off the coup.
When asked, as part of his interview with ANT1, if he believes in the reversal in the second round, he stressed: “I deeply believe that the result from the first Sunday will be reversed. The ballot boxes are empty and I think the message of change is very strong. 28%-21%. We can achieve the big turnaround and we are working on it. I want all 300,000 voters to show up, so I pushed hard for the debate, to keep interest high, to be able to have a lot of people.”
Commenting why the debate didn’t happen after allclarified: “I really wanted the debate, for 3 reasons. Firstly, because it is a public commitment, and we must maintain our public commitments, and not only, but mainly public, towards the people who supported us and voted for us. Secondly, because we want to keep people’s interest high, and there are 300,000 voters, who didn’t all vote, for example, for Harry Doukas, but want to hear this critical juncture, what he has to say to them and how it will be connected to their needs, and if we really want to activate and mobilize them, we should have done that. And there is a third reason. That we must very carefully ensure that when we say that the debate cannot take place on Saturday, Friday or Thursday, we document it. On Thursday there was a game at 10 pm, it could have been earlier. On Friday, and even today, Nikos Androulakis holds pre-election events, and tomorrow, across Greece. There has never been a pre-election event before».
Your plan for PASOK
About this what will he do differently at PASOK if electedhighlighted: “A new model of governance, which will be more participatory, open and collective, and a new political center, where all my co-candidates will participate from the first moment, and we will decide together on all the first interventions and actions.
The most basic is to show that PASOKthe main democratic faction, had as its main characteristic composing different trends, opinions, currentsthey also clashed frequently, but we always ended up on a central line.
And the second point What I will change is that we will have clear positions and opinions. We will not have a blurred mark, we will not be, as has happened many times, like a pendulum, but we will say things clearly and directly.”
Regarding his ideological position and possible cooperation with SYRIZA, he clarified: “I support progress and progress is what reduces inequalities. Now, the meaning of center-left and center-right has many interpretations. I must say that I fight a lot for free public education and free public healthcare, but I must say that there are other currents, and other attitudes, like, for example, Anna Diamantopoulou, who has more diverse positions. And I say this, that this is wealth, and we must be able to have different opinions and positions, and be able to combine and synthesize them. And this is also the bet for the next day. May everyone have a voice, let’s speak clearly.
Fofi Gennimata raised me politicallywho supported PASOK’s political autonomy, and for me that is non-negotiable and that is how we will proceed. I want PASOK to be the great democratic faction that wins.”
In conclusion, make it clear that will continue to support PASOK with even greater strength regardless of the result: “I am always a soldier, in the 1st line, and I will fight for PASOK and the democratic faction with our principles and values and with unity. I will never use swear words or words such as “adventurers”, “arrogant”, “princes” and “fugitives”, and I will not, under any circumstances, allow these expressions to be used in PASOK”.