2023-05-20 08:13:36
The scenario of a government emerging from the May 21 elections is almost improbable, however, the percentages of the parties will be a trajectory for the second ballots
Sunday’s elections are the most difficult electoral contest in recent years in our country.
The difficulty arises from two facts. Firstly, it is the first match, essentially since 1989, where the outcome is predicted to be unclear. Everything indicates that we will go to elections again and soon. The electoral law does not allow a self-governing government, while the Greek parties, rather consistent in a division that does not necessarily reflect public opinion, refuse to cooperate.
Second, neither party is advocating change and upheaval in the uncontroversial way that happened in previous contests. SYRIZA is now a big party, tested in power, but also its deterioration. Kyriakos Mitsotakis has personally disappointed the voters of the center as well as the center-left, who were once charmed by his moderate speech. Why should a centrist or center-left voter today vote for an ideologically foreign party, when it has already been identified with wiretapping and Trump-like, ultra-right politicians in key government positions? New Democracy has definitively said goodbye to any support it had in the progressive segment of the voters.
The latter are essentially asked to choose between SYRIZA and PASOK. But both parties of the progressive arc must take their own responsibilities. The right does not enter the next election divided. The left does. Can he afford it? PASOK’s suspicion of a party that is still problematic with its populist and unpredictable character is certainly well-founded. But SYRIZA’s attempt to cooperate with ideological relatives and not with Kammenos-style formations or the aggressive and isolated Yanis Varoufakis is also evident. SYRIZA also has the privileged position of the pole, which par excellence talks to the base of the center-left. However, SYRIZA must also recognize that Nikos Androulakis’s request for persons who will indeed be indestructible, may finally be the solution to end the impasse. From this point of view, the strong PASOK on Sunday night is not a brake, but a key to a great progressive alliance.
Most have already made their choices. Everything shows that on Monday those who have been chosen will be asked to make their own choices. All also point to a new appeal to the polls. There the parties must assume their responsibilities. Sunday’s showdown will be difficult, but we as citizens participate and help the parties overcome their impasses with our vote.
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