By Antonis Anzoletou

They came to the polls of the previous Sunday 281,567 more voters. Possibly the fact that the government ran out of government was an incentive for people to increase their participation. The “waiting for the popular verdict” seems to have worked positively and the presence in the school screens was treated as a task for the next day. After all, a lot has happened in the last four years.

The pandemic, immigration on the Evros, the war in Ukraine with the energy crisis, Turkish provocations, surveillance and the accident on the Evros marked the political life of the country. THE New Democracy with the perspective of self-reliance he gained the trust of the citizens. SYRIZA was defeated by simple proportionality and the political geographical map changed its image. The battle for the governance model had a clear winner. In 2019, the current majority had “painted” 49 of the country’s 59 districts blue and in Sunday’s elections it increased them by 10. Only Rhodopi now remained in its hands SYRIZA. The bell that is now ringing in Piraeus is the relaxed vote against the backdrop of the great victory that preceded it.

A characteristic of the “blue sovereignty” is that the “castle” of Achaia left the hands of the center-left for the first time after 1981. 42 years ago and until 2009, PASOK prevailed in the prefecture, while from May 2012, SYRIZA had the upper hand. On May 21, New Democracy took the lead with 33.95% against SYRIZA’s 27.01%. “Political shock” also in Crete that Kyriakos Mitsotakis managed to win in all four prefectures for the first time after the post-colonization. The political landscape changed, as even bipartisanship “disappeared”. The narrative of progressive governance dealt a major blow to Alexis Tsipras’s party by provoking many centrifugal forces. And now for SYRIZA the strengthened analogue is the “mother of battles” and for PASOK the great challenge to return to the “political game”. The KKE managed to significantly increase its forces – by 1.93% compared to 2019 – by strengthening its presence in urban centers and popular neighborhoods.

Where did the three who received the exploratory mandate achieve their highest percentages?

– SW: Dodecanese (49.97%), Laconia (49.79%), First Piraeus (48.52%), Cyclades (47.52%), Serres (47.01%).
-SYRIZA: Rodopi (33.19%), Arta (31.78%), Achaia (26.94%), Xanthi (26.47%), Kefalonia (26.08%)
– PASOK: Rodopi (22.65%), Heraklion (21.83%), Rethymno (21.53%), Lassithi (21.49%), Chios (19.36%)

The large percentage of parties found outside the Parliament is also noteworthy. It reaches 16%, with three of them, Niki (2.92%), Pleisis Eleftherias (2.89%) and MePA25 (2.63%) approaching the 3% threshold. In May 2012, where the greatest fragmentation of the political system was recorded due to the economic crisis, the percentage of formations that did not get the ticket for the Plenary reached 19.02%. And then three parties, the Environmental Greens (2.93%), LAOS (2.89%) and the Democratic Alliance (2.55%) had approached the threshold of the Parliament. Epimythio: Beyond the percentage of the New Democracy, and the battle of the center-left, the interest on June 25 is also directed towards the parties that failed to enter the Parliament. It is recalled that the bar of self-reliance rises if the number of parties that will pass 3% increases.