New Democracy sits around 30% in the polls. Alexis Tsipras’s new party is on 16.5%. Two other parties, one led by Nikos and one by Maria Karystianou, are just above 10%. Those are the figures in a ProtoThema political column on Monday, which expects a final round of surveys before the summer holidays and no surprises in them.
Karystianou’s floor
The column’s author says people in Tsipras’s camp, who know how to read a poll, do not expect Karystianou to fall below 8%. Her support base is compact, they argue, and indifferent to programmes and policy positions. They point to Natsios’ Niki party, which took 4% to 5% in 2023 although hardly anyone knew who they were. The polling team at Maximos Mansion reaches a similar view: her numbers will not drop much further, because her supporters are not the people who answer pollsters’ phone calls.
The column also says Karystianou is carrying out what it calls the fastest internal party purge in history, judging by her own social media posts. She founded the party and is already cleaning it out.
Tzakri leaves Kasselakis
Theodora Tzakri’s split from Stefanos Kasselakis had been expected for some time, according to the column. She was waiting for a trigger, and it came after Adonis gave an interview to Kasselakis. Tzakri has represented Pella since 2004. She was first elected with PASOK, defected to SYRIZA in 2015, and left in 2024 to join Kasselakis.
Where she goes next is the open question. PASOK hesitates, the column says, because leader Nikos Androulakis supported a constitutional amendment barring anyone who has served as an MP for more than 20 years from standing on the party’s lists. Sources at PASOK’s headquarters told the author that no final talks have taken place and that her resignation had nothing to do with PASOK. They put it down to an ideological disagreement with Kasselakis.
Inside the party, patience is thin. “We thought we’d get four or five MPs,” one prominent PASOK MP told the author. “Nobody knows what’s happening; everyone is asking questions and we’re all waiting.” Associates of Androulakis say transfers will come, but not yet.
Christos Kaklamanis, one of Androulakis’s closest defenders during the wiretapping affair, added to the trouble by saying that things have become much harder now that Tsipras has a party. A PASOK friend told the author that Kaklamanis “misspoke”.
Aktor and the second LNG terminal
On the energy side, the column says AKTOR and Motor Oil are in advanced discussions over, among other things, the Dioryga Gas FSRU project at Agioi Theodoroi. It would become Greece’s second LNG regasification terminal, and it has reached an advanced licensing stage. Further announcements could come within days, sources told the column.
AKTOR’s financing also drew attention. Last Friday’s announcements surprised bankers because both the bond issue and the capital increase are fully underwritten, something Greece has not seen since the 1990s. Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and UBS are willing to guarantee both, and AKTOR already has the €950 million, according to the column.
