What will happen to the electoral law?

By Antonis Anzoletou

No one in the government camp can put their hand to the fire as to what the prime minister will answer on Sunday at noon in TIF when asked about the electoral law.

The issue remains open until closed. Statements by MPs, such as Dora Bakoyannis, Stelios Petsas, Maximos Harakopoulos, Theodoros Karaoglou, etc. they keep it current.

Interventions in the electoral system have not been ruled out either by the competent minister Makis Voridis, nor by government representative Yiannis Economou.

“I would ask you not to rush to discount their opinions in one direction or the other,” he said yesterday, mainly addressing those who have discounted changes, but leaving all possibilities open.

In the blue faction there are also executives who publicly express their disagreement with possible regulations in the law that was passed two and a half years ago.

The position of Kostas Kyranakis to SKAI was typical: “Whenever he has been asked (the prime minister) he has said that these are unserious things and we operate institutionally, seriously, reliably. That some suggest him to change the electoral law may be valid but in my opinion this is wrong. And those who recommend him to change the electoral law are doing harm because they are putting pressure on the opposition”.

Everything shows that in the last hours the scales are closing in that no change is announced. There is a large portion of members of the majority who see that the institutional profile of the Prime Minister will be damaged if he proceeds with such an initiative.

And it will be an unnecessary move, many blue-collar officials believe, since the damage the government has suffered from polls is manageable.

The issues of the economy remain first on the citizens’ agenda and not the case of monitoring, so in Maximos they estimate that after the TIF the ND will put a “stamp” on the difference of 8-9 points that has been consolidated by SYRIZA.

It is recalled that the second ballots will be set up with the law passed in January 2020 and the bar of self-reliance increases as the percentage of parties that remain outside the Parliament decreases.

Indicative:

ELECTORAL LAW (second election contest)
Tiered bonus

Parties outside Parliament Percentage for majority
10% 37.5%
8% 38%
6% 38.6%
4% 39.2%

Those who believe that the way is already paved for the change of the electoral law argue that the opportunity should not be lost. They believe that the bar of self-reliance in the second ballots must drop significantly. If this happens, despite PASOK’s refusal to cooperate, there will be good chances for ND to secure a majority in the second elections.

In simple words, they want to correct the “mistake” of reducing the bonus from 50 to 40 seats with which the blue faction made it difficult for itself. An executive of the majority told that even during the time when the law was being passed, there were many blue-collar MPs who had not seen this move with a good eye. The bogeyman of the third election and of the lack of government believe that it will influence the electorate and few will accuse the prime minister of institutional deviation.

In SYRIZA they have a completely different point of view and talk about panic, acceptance of defeat and the government’s inability to manage both the issue of surveillance and the fiscal implications of its choices.

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