PASOK adds 21 names to its expansion committee as Androulakis attacks ND

New names for the expansion committee

PASOK's expansion and alliance committee announced 21 people from the centre and centre-left on 2 November. The list includes Apostolos Antonoudis, a surveyor engineer, Sofia Delipalla, a professor at the University of Macedonia, and Stelios Fenekos, who is president of 'Koinonia Axion' and a retired vice admiral. Earlier reports had given smaller numbers: SKAI said 15 new people would be announced that afternoon, and in.gr had said about 20 that morning. The committee plenary was scheduled for 18:30 at the Caravel, with Nikos Androulakis opening the session and Dimitris Mantzos set to speak on national issues.

Androulakis turns on the government's foreign policy

Androulakis opened the session by accusing New Democracy of failing in foreign policy, moving from one failure to the next. He called the government's handling of the Turkey-Libya memorandum a failure and said the prime minister's appearance at the UN Security Council was far from a diplomatic success. He also attacked the government's pre-election message on stability.

“The stability the government presents as an advantage is stability only for those who profit at the expense of the people. For the people, it is stagnation, decline.”

Pointing back to 2019, he said seven years had passed since the memorandum's period began, framing the episode as a long run of government shortcomings.

Article 23 and the private debt fight

The government withdrew article 23, which dealt with red loans, after objections. Androulakis said the episode showed the government had no protective measures for borrowers, and claimed that without PASOK and other parties in parliament, nobody would protect them. Kostas Tsoukalas told Mega that the government had tried to strip borrowers of every tool in the Code of Civil Procedure.

“We have gone back to periods when interests were legislating directly.”

PASOK's press spokesperson told Mega that the party would table an amendment to abolish the enforceable title that article 5313/2026 gave the restructuring agreement in the out-of-court mechanism for a main residence, and urged other parties to vote for it. The party says the current policy produces 70,000 auctions a year and has done so for three years. Androulakis is due to speak in the plenary on Wednesday, 4 November, on private debt, and PASOK wants Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to come to parliament that day.

Ballot planning

in.gr reports that the party's Central Committee or National Council is expected to meet by late November, and no later than early December, to approve ballot lists. The aim is to announce about 70% of the names that will fill them. The ballot committee under Petros Lambrou has already locked in dozens of names. Nina Kasimati's joining is to be announced in November, and she is to strengthen the Piraeus B ballot. MP Theodora Tzakri says she is in advanced talks with the party, but party officials say final decisions will take longer. Androulakis is due at the KEDE conference in Kalamata on Thursday, 5 November.