At yesterday’s celebrations for the 39th anniversary of PASOK, Dimitris Reppas openly considered the cooperation of PASOK with opposition leaders SYRIZA, as a step towards the party’s recovery.
Mr. Reppas explained that PASOK can only exist as left centrist party and that it must take the initiative to cooperate, without excluding anyone. The PASOK member stressed that the party recovery necessitates “a strong partner”.
According to the politician, a PASOK-SYRIZA cooperation “will not be any more detrimental or less beneficial for the country”. Mr. Reppas added that the ability to come to agreement with New Democracy means that an agreement can be reached with other parties.
Mr. Reppas accused the 2004-09 New Democracy administration for causing the crisis and urged the current administration to no rule out an “anti-troika” and “national liberation” model to exit the crisis.
Kostas Skandalidis later took the stand and assumed a more critical stance, suggesting that SYRIZA’s “leftist populism” is just as deplorable as “rightist populism that invests in fear, celebrates the infallibility of the ‘recipe’ and submits to every troika technocrat’s demand”.
Mr. Skandalidis expressed the need to revise the recover strategy and the bail out loans, while blaming Karamanlis’ administration for the “catastrophic politics” that caused the country’s fiscal derailment and was “passed on like a ‘hot potato’” to PASOK.
The former minister asserted that PASOK must clarify its cooperation intentions prior to the next national elections. He also admitted that PASOK declined and it is time that it became a “radical subject” to set the terms of the “new regime change” that “will express the center left”.
