Androulakis at youth conference: We can change politics together, provide a voice to the voiceless

PASOK-Movement for Change (KINAL) party leader Nikos Androulakis called on young people to participate in politics and help overcome the "conservative, clientelistic political system that conveys the message of 'don't hope for anything if you don't have a party connection, if you are not a cadre, if you do not belong to the 'system'," during an address at the party youth national conference at the Peace and Friendship Stadium (SEF) on Sunday.

"The struggle for political change is not futile," Androulakis said, "and together we can achieve political change, strengthen your voice, and give a voice to those who do not have one."

PASOK-KINAL's leader claimed that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis identified with the worst practices that brought Greece to bankruptcy, and called ruling New Democracy "a never-ending scandal". PASOK and its youth have a future, facing this conservatism and corruption, he said, and expressed the need for a youth with a progressive, democratic political conscience - one that participates in society, that has a presence in work places and universities, and one that provides hope and prospects for the Greek people and the vision of European peoples' solidarity. 

Young people had more reasons to take a lead, after living from Greek crisis to crisis and "instead of dreams grows up with enormous and disproportionate difficulties - unemployment, rising rents, inadequate wages, inequalities, daily repetitions of 'there is no alternative'," Androulakis said.

PASOK wants a country that operates on the lines of the most advanced European nations, with a new and updated public administration that works on meritocracy. "PASOK's priority is the social state: public health and public education," Androulakis said, criticizing the government's policies in both sectors.

Among other issues, the party leader mentioned Ukraine and Gaza: "Our party was historically at the forefront of large international developments, that is why PASOK is not compromising either with the barbaric invasion of Putin in Ukraine, or with the ethnic cleansing of Netanyahu in Gaza against the Palestinian people." 

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