Androulakis at 86th TIF: PASOK 'can guarantee governmental stability after national elections'

PASOK-KINAL "will guarantee governmental stability even from the first round of the next national elections, if Greek people give it a strong mandate" to that effect, said party leader Nikos Androulakis in a press conference held on Thursday at the 86th Thessaloniki International Fair.

Androulakis pointed out that "there is no need to rush into potential coalition government schemes and scenarios," and he added that his party "is not afraid of the upcoming elections, and the dilemma is whether there will be a democratic overthrow or tolerance of the regime and its authoritarianism."

Pasok's leader also clarified that he will not be consenting to either New Democracy's Kyriakos Mitsotakis or Syriza's Alexis Tsipras becoming the prime minister. He noted that both the country's current prime minister Mitsotakis and main opposition leader Tsipras "see eye-to-eye in their criticism against PASOK."

Regarding the case of him being a victim of wiretapping, he called on the prime minister to lift the secrecy protocol and provide explanations so that elections can be held in a calm political climate, as he said: "explanations first, so that citizens know the truth and they can judge and decide for themselves in the ballot box."

Concerning Greek-Turkish relations, Androulakis underlined that "Turkey's European accession perspective is a chimera," and that Greece "has International Law on its side."

He also argued that talks for a solution to the Cyprus issue should be restarted right after the next elections in Nicosia.