“I feel the need not to talk today about what we are doing in the Department, what we are working to put into practice, day and night, in the Department of Transport. I feel a need coming out of me to talk about the ordinary NDcrat. For the ordinary party member who has dedicated and identified his life with the party,” Deputy Minister of Transport, Constantinos Kyranakis, said from the podium of the 16th Ordinary Congress of the Southwest,
Addressing those who this year made the choice to join the ND family, to join the GAP-NDFK, he said that “we must all fight and justify this choice”.
He also wanted to talk about the ordinary ONNEDite who-when a few years have passed and he has finished school and had to go out into society to be able to convince groups of people who despise politics and parties and believe in a world without ideologies, a world without political ideas-he insists on being an ONNEDite. “He insists on expressing himself with a political identity that is pure and clear. And he makes the decision, whether in local government or on the main political stage, at some point to take the bravest step: to ask for a cross.”
He spoke of the “real fighters” of the party, having in mind, as he stressed, workers in every sector, police officers, members of the armed forces, coastguards, freelancers who each in their own circle feel fingered. “Why? Because he dares to express a political opinion… Because having been labelled as partisan he feels he has missed opportunities. He has felt an injustice, a bitterness, he has felt that everyone else, the apolitical, the neutral, the indifferent are moving on and he is being left behind.”
“So I want us to make a common promise to this man: that each and every one of us New Democrats will always support each other. To show in practice what the ND family means.”
