The next prime minister and the ‘agreement’ K. Mitsotaki- A. Tsipras

By Niki Zorba

A return to political normality marks, among others, the strong bipolarity. He is the one who was the first to disrupt the era of memoranda with the collapse of PASOK and the rise of SYRIZA, he is the one who immediately after the exit from the memoranda moved to reconstitute it.

The momentum that New Democracy under Kyriakos Mitsotakis was re-elected autonomously, 10 years after the last autonomous government of the country, also signaled this: The expectation of a way out of the crisis and the need to return to autonomous governments as soon as the ten-year adventure ended.

THE simple analog brought by SYRIZA is a “gravel” in pursuit of strong autonomous governments. The ND corrected the law and no matter how much the official opposition insists on government collaborations, it never promised that its intention is to restore the simple analog.

The next ballot box will therefore be set up with a simple analogy that strongly mixes the political deck with scenarios that have started almost from the same day of the election of the N.D. government. At his first TIF, Mr. Mitsotakis as Prime Minister, two months after taking office, had already received a question for elections in order to “burn” the simple proportional. For three years now, the relevant scenarios have been following the phenomenon of low tide and tide.

The scenarios for very early elections did not succeed, despite the constant suggestions that Mr. Mitsotakis received from time to time, with pressure to find an “electoral window”, even in the midst of an outbreak of the pandemic. Elections at the end of the four years, he lived steadily and continues to state it, although the elections in the Spring of 2023, based on the climate that has been formed, does not qualify as the prevailing scenario.

If the developments flow in a straight line, on the front of the Greek-Turkish mainly, the possibility of setting up the first (?) Ballots of the simple analog in Autumn, seems stronger than the other option, of Spring.

Alexis Tsipras has repeatedly expressed in recent weeks his assessment that Kyriakos Mitsotakis is preparing to “trumpet” elections in early autumn, the polarization of the political scene has already “smelled” ballot boxes, Nikos Androulakis is “running” to make program and everyone is moving in a pre-election trajectory with the party staffs being steamed for electoral “surprise” that can no longer even be considered as such.

Collaborations and Prime Minister

THE Ν.Δ After a brief – rather misguided – “burning” strategy of the first ballot box, which essentially gave the character of “European elections” to the simple proportional, so he practically preferred the “loose vote”, was reprogrammed: Claiming autonomy from the Sunday of the first elections. The “beans” according to the polls do not come out, so the government camp is discounting in a way that second ballot boxes will be set up to achieve autonomy.

THE SYRIZA follows a strategy of forming a “progressive government” from the first ballots, giving the battle to change the balance of power: a precondition is for a first party to emerge.

The PASOK-KINAL He is discussing cooperation with the first party in order to avoid the second elections, but he states in all ways that he is not going to enter a government with either Mr. Mitsotakis or Alexis Tsipras as prime minister.

And here the fierce conflict between ND-SYRIZA is coming to an end (the polarization will intensify even more in the near future) and Mitsotakis-Tsipras coincide in views:

Prime Minister even in a co-operative government should be the winner of the election: The leader of the first party.

“The people are elected prime minister, Mr. Androulakis is not elected. We have clarified things here: Prime Minister and I emphasize this, the Prime Minister must be the leader of the first party, either alone or in a co-operative government. This applies to whoever is first “party, it does not apply only to New Democracy”, Kyriakos Mitsotakis said yesterday to interview given to ERT clarifying that this also applies to the case that Alexis Tsipras wins the elections: “If tomorrow Mr. Tsipras will be the first party, of course, Mr. Tsipras must be the Prime Minister”.

He has this many times supported by the president of SYRIZA and sharply, addressing the president of PASOK:

“At some point he has to tell us what he does not want and what he wants because so far we only hear what he does not want. The prime ministers are elected by the Greek people and not by the cameras.”