2024-05-25 20:50:37
Article by the Deputy Minister of Transport and Island Coverage, within the newspaper Parapolitika
Anybody with a great reminiscence will bear in mind handwritten or printed indicators caught to retailer money registers warning that “no mistake is acknowledged after checkout.” Errors are actually acknowledged after checkout and corrected. However the poll field was not, just isn’t, and won’t change into a fund. The democracy that was born in our nation earlier than spreading to the complete planet has one primary precept. That the vote is a proper, it’s secret and doesn’t change. Voters train their proper and are accountable for their alternative. Simply because the candidates are accountable for what they promise to the voters. This primary sample additionally applies to the upcoming European elections.
Voters can discover out concerning the positions of events and candidates. To be seen and heard. To vote for them or not for what they characterize and help. Neither to “revenge” a celebration nor to precise their discomfort. Voting is a proper and a alternative, not a punishment. In spite of everything these years we’ve got it ingrained and now just isn’t the time to experiment as as to if what we’ve got ingrained has lasting energy.
The vote of all of us resonates in Greece, Europe and wherever there are Greeks who for the primary time had the suitable to vote by letter. The vote for the European Parliament will present who we wish to have representatives in Brussels and Strasbourg. Who do we wish concerned in making essential selections about our economic system, society and tradition? And I’m certain that we are not looking for our representatives, from no matter social gathering they arrive from, to be concerned with the Judiciary, to be fingered for the improper causes, to be prosecuted and to show the residents who voted for them. The above examples usually are not random and are based mostly on actual occasions.
After elimination from the poll field, no mistake is acknowledged and returns of any form usually are not accepted. Then nobody has the suitable to complain about what may have been executed and was not executed.
Giannis Pappas
Deputy Minister of Transport and Island Coverage