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PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos reacted to a decision by former PASOK leader and PASOK head, George Papandreou, to abstain from the founding congress of the “Elia" party in Athens.

Leaders of European socialist parties are gathered in Rome proclaiming their vision for the European Union. PASOK president Evangelos Venizelos seized the opportunity for some publicity.

In a meeting today, the “movement of 58” studied socialist PASOK party leader (and Foreign minister) Evangelos Venizelos' proposals for a common Europarliamentary election ticket and they flatly rejected it. With polls showing the formerly mighty PASOK party crumbling in low single digits, a coalition with center-left personalities was perhaps the only option.