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Political instability, electoral law change scenarios and why SYRIZA is wringing its hands

By Niki Zorba

From any point of view, the case of the wiretapping and surveillance of Nikos Androulakis was a hopeless gift for SYRIZA, for a number of political and communication reasons.

1. He led PASOK-KINAL to the absolute break with the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, precisely at that point in time when the pressures on Harilaou Trikoupis were increasing to decide “whom to go with and whom to leave”.

Given these, the party’s reluctance to explain that it is not a product of micro-megalomania the insistence on an “autonomous political course”, together with some …centrifugal tendencies within it, further hampered the effort. The truth is that PASOK-KINAL had much more difficulty explaining to its voters why it does not intend to cooperate with ND than with SYRIZA, where it was a “solved case” at the mercy of the anti-SYRIZA front.

A nice (sic) August Friday morning, with the revelation that EYP was watching PASOK president Nikos Androulakis, the PASOK got out of the vise of the pressure for cooperation with the government faction and any expectations were dashed: “How can Androulakis cooperate now with the one who was watching him?”, was the question that dominated (also) the first hours of the revelations in the political and journalistic wells.

Does SYRIZA win from the complete rift between Harilaos Trikoupis and Maximou? Undoubtedly, if one takes into account that its president, shortly before the wiretapping story broke, addressed Nikos Androulakis and constantly, persistently and anxiously asked him to commit that he would not cooperate with the ND after the elections.

2. The profile of the prime minister was obtained in terms of the image of the guarantor of the Institutions, the Rule of Law and the loyal adherence to the principles of liberal democracy. The turmoil that prevailed in the government over the case of the surveillances, led it to often lose its temper and attack foreign media and nominally journalists. Admittedly, not a wise choice that Koumoundourou used to “report” the attacks on media and journalists during the SYRIZANEL period.

3. The first polls (GPO/Marc) with a wide divergence between them in terms of findings in qualitative data, demonstrate the risk of political instability. A risk that brought back the scenarios of a new change in the electoral law in order to make it easier for the first party to achieve self-reliance, which whichever poll of the two you choose to study, remains with a safe margin for the time being, the N.D.

Electoral law

Much ink has been spilled in the past period for a new change in the electoral law, as Kyriakos Mitsotakis accepted suggestions (and pressures) in the direction of changing it in order to “lock” the N.D.’s self-reliance and not need government support (see PASOK- KINAL).

The prime minister himself has publicly and repeatedly denied that he is discussing the scenario despite the existing suggestions he has received.

Yesterday, it returned to the current affairs agenda, through the member of the N.D Maximos Charakopoulos in Parliament:

“Let’s revisit the issue of the electoral law and possibly return to the bonus of 50 seats that the previous law gave to the first party, in order to form an independent government because the last thing the country needs is instability. after the latest developments and the attitude of the third a party that does not work in the direction of building consensus and consensus in order to address the major problems and national challenges facing the country”.

THE Dora Bakoyannis she was asked after the position of her colleague, confirming that there is this discussion in the parliamentary and journalistic wells as an electoral law with a bonus of 50 seats gives greater possibilities of stability, but reminded that Kyriakos Mitsotakis is not one of the prime ministers who are pressured, he has positioned himself in this regard and in anyway it’s his decision.

Centrally, through the representative of G. Oikonomou, the government closed the issue again: We are proceeding with the 2023 elections with the institutional framework that exists at the moment.

In Koumoundourou, however, they are on guard: If they change the electoral law again, it will be an admission of defeat in addition to unprecedented institutional decline, is the constant refrain.

Source: Capital

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