In May elections, the country won the bet of stability and steady course towards the exiting from the crisis, PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos said in his introductory speech at the meeting of the party’s political council, adding that people responded negatively to SYRIZA’s dilemma for overall questioning of the government and the national strategy.

The 8.0 percent PASOK gathered at the elections is not satisfactory, Venizelos noted, but the crisis has brought radical changes.

Venizelos stressed that PASOK’s new goal election-wise is to be the third party in the next polls, pointing out that it would be unacceptable for the Golden Dawn to receive a mandate to form a government.

He also stressed that there is no dilemma between PASOK or “Elia”. This, he said, is an “alleged contradiction which does not exist.”