Androulakis: Today there are no winners and losers; the winner is PASOK

Nikos Androulakis was the winner in the second round of PASOK’s internal party leadership elections on Sunday.Based on the final results and a total of 213,001 votes, Nikos Androulakis won with 60.16% while Haris Doukas got 39.84%.

“Today there are no winners and losers. The winner is PASOK. And from tomorrow, all together, united, we will lead our party even higher! Where it deserves to be, thanks to its history and contribution. I have repeated it many times during this pre-election period, I will say it again tonight: the difficult days are behind us! The best are ahead!” Androulakis underlined.

The leader of PASOK emphasised that “together we will move forward, without populism, with a serious and reliable programmatic discourse, with dynamism. And above all with political ethics, because for me politics does not begin where ethics ends. They are identical.”

He expressed the certainty that PASOK and the democratic faction can succeed in defeating the ruling New Democracy. “It has a duty to give hope and perspective to Greek men and women, to the younger generations. Especially now that the false promises have collapsed, now that the eyes of more and more Greeks are turning to our party again.”

He spoke about the big changes that society needs, while adding that “citizens are looking to us to overcome the current political impasse.”