By Penelope Galliou

The female gender of the “ballot” does not seem to attract the determination of women in these elections, as based on relevant analyzes of the polls that have been conducted recently, they show that women occupy a large percentage of the undecided, wavering until the last moment.

Pollsters, analysts and politicians are highlighting, even just twenty-four hours before the election, the role of the undecided in shaping the election result and how they could act as a catalyst at the last moment, given that the percentage of “undecided” voters remains in double digits and ranges from more polls at “+ -” 10%.

Based on the estimates resulting from the findings of several recent polls, more than 6 out of 10 undecided people are women, while 7 out of 10, according to “Kathimerini” information, are under 45 years old.

Under these conditions, until the last moment, just before they decide behind the screen, the ruling party focuses on the specific groups trying, like all parties, to win as large a piece of the disputed “pie” as possible.

In this context, besides the program of the ND which has specific provisions for women and young people, the pre-election activity of the prime minister can be included in shows that are more aimed at a female audience or at younger ages, as well as yesterday’s appearance on the show of Katerina Kainouriou, “Super Katerina”.

An interview in which the Prime Minister mentioned from the wage gap between men and women, to representation in the Council of Ministers and from neighborhood nannies to the “panic button” for abused women, policies that he designed, promoted and are already being implemented in Greece ,

“I have committed that in the next Council of Ministers we will have many more women. There are countries that have implemented the absolute “gender parity”, i.e. an equal number of women and men,” said Mr. Mitsotakis, recalling that already “In the State ballot I implemented the my commitment and we have eight women and seven men, half of whom are women in elected positions”.

Referring to women’s wages, he pledged to close the “gap” in wage inequality between men and women, stressing that “For the second four-year period, I want to increase wages, and obviously, this concerns both women and men. But of course to close, as we said, and the gap, that distance which still separates women’s wages from men’s wages”.

Additional important steps were also taken in maternity leaves where the government equalized the said leaves in the private and public sector, while 2,000 euros of support was given to the family for each new child that is born. Support that the prime minister described as “an important relief, when a family takes the step and has a child, because I know that the costs increase very sharply when another member is added to a family”.

In the immediately implementable programs for the next four years, the prime minister also mentioned daycare centers in large companies, talking about a “very important program financed by the Recovery Fund in larger companies, in 120 companies: we will build daycare centers in the the businesses themselves. In other words, the working mother or father will take the child with them, and will be able to leave them somewhere”.

Another pilot program to support women and families is “Neighborhood Nannies” which enables a family to have access to a person who will take care of the child at home, while the parents may be away, if it is not possible for the child to go to a nursery school.

At the same time, Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke about domestic violence and femicides recalling the operation of the already so-called “panic button” the encrypted application for immediate help of women in danger, but also the support lines activated to support abused women.

In the previous elections, however, the ND prevailed in the women’s vote with 8.4%.