Members of coalition government partner PASOK have expressed their concern about their party’s lackluster results in the latest polls, particularly in relation to the newly-founded River. This is evident by comments such as that of prominent PASOK executive Kostas Skandalidis, who went so far as to claim that “PASOK, as we knew it, is dead”.
According to Ta Nea, PASOK’s executives hope that candidates in the upcoming European elections, who will run under the “Olive Tree” banner, will help turn around the negative climate.
Indicatively, the party’s press officer Odysseas Konstantinopoulos has professed that the party’s European ballot must represent all tendencies within PASOK, in order to highlight unity. The party secretary Nikos Androulakis however believes that the strongest candidates must be included, such as Andreas Loverdos.
Irrespective of the decisions and outcome of the upcoming Olive Tree conference, which will begin on Saturday at the Peace and Friendship stadium in Piraeus, PASOK executives are stressing the importance of taking unifying initiatives, in order to bolster party support and turn around the party’s declining polls.
