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A social media warfare has damaged out in latest days. It issues the opportunity of the candidacy of Haris Doukas within the technique of electing the president of PaSoK, which is anticipated to be launched throughout the week. On Monday night time, Nikos Androulakis will open his papers on the principle information bulletin of ERT. On Wednesday, the political council of the occasion will meet, from the place the choice on the street map is anticipated.

A foregone conclusion

When will the elections be held? There have been options and ideas that the method must be finished even in July. The reactions that adopted the revealing of the Step on Friday appear to have created a brand new panorama. Every little thing exhibits that poll containers will probably be arrange throughout the yr. The potential of holding the election, as offered for by the statute, on the finish of 2025 has been eliminated. How can a celebration go on for a yr and a half with its chief in query? Can Harilaou Trikoupi not react by elevating the gauntlet to a problem that she considers to have been pre-decided and motivated by private passions?

The reality is that PaSoK didn’t obtain its electoral aim. It didn’t lose greater than ND and SYRIZA, however it’s the solely occasion that bought into adventures. “There isn’t any doubt that some folks have been ready for Androulakis within the nook,” a prime official of the occasion tells BIMA.

Every little thing factors to a Duke candidacy

The discussions in PaSoK, throughout this time, concern the nominations which can be anticipated to happen, to be exact, they concern whether or not Mr. Doukas will probably be a candidate for the management of the occasion. He, for now, retains his papers closed. Together with his intervention in “Kathimerini” he identified that the difficulty with the election end result “isn’t just a defeat, that one other alternative was misplaced. The worst factor is that we get used to defeats. With excuses and the gnawing of time, the house is at risk of degenerating and the request to ‘lastly do one thing’ comes from in every single place.”

Mr. Doukas was in favor of interesting to the polls, however he didn’t make clear his personal intentions. “You will need to agree and draw the street map of the modifications that should be launched instantly” he mentioned and added meaningfully. “The election end result despatched a transparent and resounding message: The reconstitution of the democratic occasion should not be misplaced once more in infinite debates, in committees, coordinations and platforms.”

Regardless of these statements, the local weather that exists in Kotzia sq. is electoral. There should not just a few executives who imagine that Mr. Doukas has already made his choices and the one factor left is the time and the best way he’ll announce them. For the reason that night time of the European elections, the mayor of Athens has acquired quite a few cellphone calls from PaSoK and the broader center-left.

Certainly, after the intervention-questioning of Odysseus Konstantinopoulos, the cellphone calls intensified. There was concern but additionally an exhortation to Mr. Doukas to be a candidate within the occasion that the succession procedures are opened. In the previous couple of days, Mr. Doukas has made a sequence of contacts and all the pieces exhibits that he has made his choices. All indications are that, barring a stunning contingency, he will probably be within the race for succession.

Battle and “character assassination”

The intention of the mayor of Athens to appoint Doukas brings ups and downs in PaSoK but additionally within the relationship of the mayor of Athens with the president of the occasion Nikos Androulakis who sees that “his chosen one for the municipality of Athens is claiming his place”. It’s a improvement that provokes the response of Harilaou Trikoupis. “If I have been a citizen of the Municipality of Athens, I’d need my mayor to finish his time period. I estimate that Mr. Doukas will full his time period and can attempt to do what he’s already doing in an excellent approach and really efficiently, to be the mayor of Athens”, mentioned the occasion’s press consultant Thanasis Glavinas.

The candidacy of Mr. Doukas foreshadows a tricky inside occasion battle. Indicative of the local weather that has been created is the warfare that has damaged out in the previous couple of hours on the web. The mayor of Athens, though he’s a member of the central committee and for a few years secretary of the occasion’s power sector, is handled as a down-and-out within the Pasok firmament. Members of the occasion accuse, amongst different issues, Mr. Doukas of “intemperance”, “overambition” and “ingratitude” in the direction of Nikos Androulakis. In addition they emphasize that it’s unthinkable for an individual who has not even spent half a yr within the chair of the mayor of Athens to say the management of a political occasion. They contemplate it to be an perspective of discrediting the mandate of the residents and level out that, in any case, the municipality of Athens was nothing greater than step one within the ambitions of Mr. Doukas. Such is the depth and tones of the criticism that another officers, with a mocking temper, reply that “in a short time you’ll begin crying as a result of Bakoyannis misplaced”.

The mayor’s associates are conscious of the scene that has been created. His supporters imagine that this entire warfare is being led by the management of Harilaou Trikoupi. They assist the sharpest feedback “come from private pals of N. Androulakis” and intention to deconstruct Mr. Doukas when it comes to “character assassination”. As they are saying, they don’t seem to be going to enter an analogous course of. “We aren’t going to donate blood, we’ll solely train political criticism” they are saying

The essential assembly

All this local weather has given a essential character to the assembly of the political council on Wednesday. No, as a result of the roadmap for the presidential election will most likely be launched at this assembly. However why it’s going to present how robust this matchup will probably be. That’s, if a divisive local weather is created, just like 2007, when Giorgos Papandreou and Evangelos Venizelos claimed the management of PaSoK. What is for certain is that PASOK is coming into a zone of extreme inside occasion turmoil with unpredictable penalties.