{"id":14786,"date":"2026-04-19T23:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/pasok-bets-on-fractured-rivals-collapse\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T23:35:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:35:52","slug":"pasok-bets-on-fractured-rivals-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/pasok-bets-on-fractured-rivals-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"PASOK bets on fractured rivals\u2019\u00a0collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1301301\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/androulakis_web-5-320x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/androulakis_web-5.jpg\" alt=\"PASOK bets on fractured rivals\u2019\u00a0collapse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/androulakis_web-5-960x600.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>File photo.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis is pressing his call for snap elections at every opportunity, raising questions about whether the demand reflects genuine political strategy or campaign posturing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Party officials insist the call is sincere, arguing the government is in \u201cfull decline\u201d and leading the country toward deeper deterioration. Yet polling data shows PASOK lacks the momentum needed to unseat the ruling New Democracy party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PASOK officials believe Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is unlikely to call early elections while the war crisis continues. The opposition party sees opportunity in a fractured opposition landscape.<\/p>\n<p>SYRIZA remains in prolonged disintegration, while former prime minister Alexis Tsipras has yet to make a decisive return to frontline politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PASOK officials believe the election demand serves a dual purpose: reinforcing Androulakis\u2019 leadership profile and positioning the party as the primary opposition force.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Privately, they acknowledge that when elections do come, PASOK must prove it possesses \u201cthe program, the personnel, the plan\u201d to deliver real political change.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/politics\/1301301\/pasok-bets-on-fractured-rivals-collapse\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo. PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis is pressing his call for snap elections at every opportunity, raising questions about whether the demand reflects genuine political strategy or campaign posturing.\u00a0 Party officials insist the call is sincere, arguing the government is in \u201cfull decline\u201d and leading the country toward deeper deterioration. Yet polling data shows PASOK &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"PASOK bets on fractured rivals\u2019\u00a0collapse\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/pasok-bets-on-fractured-rivals-collapse\/#more-14786\" aria-label=\"Read more about PASOK bets on fractured rivals\u2019\u00a0collapse\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/androulakis_web-5-960x600.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}