PASOK’s leadership elections and the forgotten diasporic Hellenism
Source: NEOS KOSMOS
We are less than a week away (Sunday, 6 October 2024) from the first round of the election to choose a new PASOK leader and…
Even though the campaigns of all six candidates are full on, addressing policy issues that manage to attract the interest of hundreds of thousands of Greek citizens.
Even though there will be polling stations in most the major centers of diasporic Hellenism, including Melbourne and Sydney, in order to enable Greek citizens who are on the electoral roll of Greece to participate in the process of electing a new leader, if they are members, or a sympathiser of PASOK.
None of the six candidates, so far, has bothered to address the members and the issues affecting the various Greek diasporic communities around the globe.
Is it because there were only close to 50,000 votes in the recent European Parliament elections that were cast outside of Greece?
Is it because diasporic Hellenism is not part of the national narrative?
Is it because the notion of the Greek state and of the Greek nation is so one dimensional, so restrictive and so Greece centric, that it cannot include in the collective imagination the diverse diasporic communities?
Considering that PASOK was the governing party of Greece that consistently attempted, for a number of decades and with relative success, to upgrade the relationship of Greece with the diasporic communities abroad.
Considering that the current conservative government of PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis intends to bring back the issue of postal voting for the national elections as well (now the law allows postal voting for EU elections only).
Considering that the current PM of Greece and his leading ministers are in constant contact with certain leading members and organisations of Ecumenical Hellenism.
It might be a good idea for all six candidates for the leadership of PASOK, to attempt to say a few words now, about the way they envisage the relationship of their party with Greeks abroad, under their own leadership.
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