The monstrosity, the power of the first party and the “smudge” of non-governance

By Antonis Anzoletou

The political vocabulary has always been enriched by current events. After the Prime Minister’s two days at the TIF, “teratogenesis” is the term that dominates the wells of the Parliament and the party staffs. Disparate partnerships are nothing new. In the post-colonial period, the ND teamed up with the KKE in the ecumenical government of 1989 and SYRIZA with the Independent Greeks. The difference in relation to a possible collaboration between SYRIZA, PASOK, KKE and MERA25 described by Kyriakos Mitsotakis is that in the two previous cases the first party participated to the government. The prime minister at the press conference referred to the scenario where the arithmetic of simple proportionality allows three or four opposition parties to secure a majority of the 151 deputies. Because otherwise, unlike what happened in the past, these are four parties that belong to the center-left. Many members of the opposition spoke of intimidation and that the Greek people will show which government they want with their vote.

By SYRIZA they have not commented extensively on the Prime Minister’s report, considering that he largely wanted to exorcise the soft vote of the blue-collar voters. In other words, to get off the “couch” the citizens who consider that the vote is lost on the first Sunday of the elections. They insist that their party can come first in the polls and form a progressive government. They count on the pressure that the other powers will receive, but also on the fear of not taking on themselves the “smudge” of the lack of governance.

The KKE has made it clear in all tones that a repeat of 1989 is not going to happen again. From the first moment, he has cut off any scenario of cooperation with SYRIZA by classifying it among the bourgeois parties that, especially in the period 2015-2019, signed new memoranda and did not pay the attention it should have to the working class.

THE Harilaou Trikoupshe has also never blinked an eye at Koumoundourou. The fact that they go hand in hand in the Commission of Inquiry and recently withdrew from the process is not an element that can prescribe a common future. Nikos Androulakis commented on the teratogenesis in a very characteristic way during his speech last night at the TIF: “Have you heard about the teratogenesis of the apostasy of ’65? Do you remember ’89 and the special court? The teratogenesis of the anti-memorial slander front that you set up together with SYRIZA to wash away the responsibilities of New Democracy? All this was aimed at our faction. It is engraved in our political DNA. You are making desperate efforts to change history, but there is historical memory. We did not star in any monstrosity. You were the aggressor and we were the victim. That is why we are the Democratic Party of the country. We do not play games with the institutions and the rule of law.”

Concerning the Day25 the only case that came close to SYRIZA was in the pre-day debate held on surveillance at the end of August, where Yanis Varoufakis attacked the government and denied that he was under solicitation in 2015, when he was finance minister.

The simple proportional equation is multifactorial. The first party is the master of the game. The lack of the bonus, however, does not make it omnipotent. The difference between ND and SYRIZA is also a catalyst, as is the percentage of forces that will remain outside Parliament. The third party, probably PASOK, is the regulator that will anyway receive the last exploratory order if the other two have not been successful. As far as the polls with the staggered bonus are concerned, the vast majority of even non-government MPs admit that it is the most likely scenario and they must prepare with an eye on them as well.

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