Yeroulanos warns party must act within two months or rethink strategy

Opposition lawmaker Pavlos Yeroulanos said precocious connected Thursday that Greece’s socialist PASOK enactment indispensable take cardinal organizational steps within the adjacent two months oregon reconsider its strategy, warning it risked losing governmental momentum.

Yeroulanos, a parliamentary spokesman for PASOK, told Action24 television the enactment had performed strongly astatine the Thessaloniki International Fair earlier this period but said the window of accidental was “small.”

“[PASOK person Nikos Androulakis] has spoken astir however important it is to step connected the gas. We cognize the governmental system will find ways to propulsion different solutions to the table,” helium said.

He added that unless enactment bodies are convened and advancement is made towards a “substantive congress” successful that period, PASOK would person to rethink its approach.

Yeroulanos, a erstwhile civilization minister, stopped abbreviated of calling Androulakis’ enactment into question. Androulakis was re-elected arsenic enactment main successful a contention past year, successful which Yeroulanos was eliminated successful the archetypal round.

Asked astir the imaginable of a caller enactment led by erstwhile premier curate Alexis Tsipras, Yeroulanos said such a improvement would gully nationalist attraction distant from PASOK. “You will person large trouble presenting your program, due to the fact that the treatment will shift,” helium said.

He added that a ample excavation of undecided voters was still seeking an alternate government.

Greece is owed to clasp its adjacent parliamentary predetermination successful the summertime of 2027. A caller Prorata canvass enactment support for PASOK astatine 11.5%, while lone 8% of respondents considered Androulakis suitable for premier minister.