“We need a change in leadership. And that can only happen with me,” Pavlos Geroulanos said tonight, speaking on the main newscast of the OPEN television station.

He even threw down the gauntlet to Nikos Androulakis, saying, “He knows that only I can bring a change of leadership in the second round and that if I pass, his position will be difficult. He knows that I am the only one who can beat him, so he is attacking me.”

And he argued that his candidacy broadens the party. “We need to bring back the voters who left PASOK. The party’s communication is blurring the landscape instead of clarifying it,” he noted, while referring to Haris Doukas, he stressed that “the battles are fought in Parliament, where you are measured against the prime minister.” “It is difficult to lead a party if you are not in Parliament,” he added meaningfully.

Responding to recent statements by Anna Diamantopoulou that he entered politics late as a minister, Geroulanos commented: “Mrs Diamantopoulou has not read my political career.”

He also argued that “PASOK’s chances of governing diminish if it moves away from the political centre” and said he would be with PASOK the next day.