PASOK spokesman Tsoukalas rejects Georgiadis's post-election cooperation offer, says ND will not come first

Georgiadis names PASOK as the only possible partner

Speaking on the ERTnews programme Efthes, Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis said he was confident New Democracy would win an outright majority. He added that if a coalition became necessary, PASOK was the only party it could work with. He said any such government would require agreement on major issues, including the country's western orientation, relations with Israel and respect for European law.

Georgiadis also said he did not rule out elections on 16 May 2027, though he did not treat that date as settled. He attacked the opposition, saying it showed more arrogance than the government, and said Alexis Tsipras had never apologised for his mistakes.

PASOK's response

PASOK spokesman Kostas Tsoukalas accused Georgiadis of changing his line a few weeks after openly floating a coalition with Antonis Samaras, and said the shift was probably the result of pressure from Maximos Mansion, the seat of government. Tsoukalas said Georgiadis was trying to pick opponents while attacking PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis in a way that would not work.

Tsoukalas also named Kyriakos Velopoulos, Antonis Samaras and Afroditi Latinopoulou, saying they were part of the New Democracy family and should be excluded from any partnership scenario by the minister's own logic. In a separate statement he wrote that the cement was laughing, a jibe at Georgiadis's position.

“Apati os ta oneira sas, k. Georgiada, kai min agxonesthe giati den tha einai proti i Nea Dimokratia, opote den tha xreiastei na vrei etairo.”

The words are in Greek in the source and the speaker's English rendering is not available, so the quote block above has been omitted from the summary body.

Other points raised

Georgiadis also referred to the 2018 basketball match-fixing allegation involving referee Vasiliki Tsarouxa, which he said dated back to 2018, and he rejected a claim about the former federation head. Health policy came up too: he said the National Health System now has 14,000 more doctors and nurses than in 2019, while conceding that needs keep rising as the population ages.

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