Theodore Douloumpekis, National Coordinator of PES Activists Greece
What shocked me more with the Breferendum was the “shell” shock of the European institutions and leaders after the disheartening result.
Once again, following the Greek referendum, leaders of the systemic-traditional parties and EU institutions proved that the distance between them and the real people is getting greater.
I am not writing about their inability to predict the referendums results.
I am writing about democracy which I feel exceeds its territorial elasticity under a deficit of representativeness.
I am writing about feelings.
Austerity is not a hashtag word, is the pain of a mother that cannot buy milk for her baby, unemployment is not the topic of a workshop but it is the red eyes off a young girl in front of a PC waiting in vain for an answer at her CV, social imbalances are not just a campaign to run but it is the wet eyes of a grandfather while his grandson watching a limo of a blue collar politician passing by while he cannot buy a lollipop for his son.
Feeling is more than understanding is more than working on something and I wonder can our leaders anymore feel the ordinary, the young, the unemployed, the working class people?
Union, built with passion, is not about interstate agreements. Union is about common feelings of policy makers and ordinary everyday citizens.
We need to bridge the distance between people, between local communities and the impersonal European institutions. PES Activists a grassroots movement of ordinary people can become this bridge.
I would like to see Party of European Socialists to invest more in PES Activists, i would like to ask to upgrade our role in a PES network and give us the opportunity to represent our local communities and the ordinary people also in “closed doors” meetings.
I believe in democracy as continuous process, I believe in a Union of feelings
I do not want to be shocked again.
Give people a chance!
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