By Ioanna Mandrou

It is not the first time that political parties suffer shocks, defeats, internal turmoil and discredit from the social body. The Left, for example, with the collapse of the Soviet model in the early 1990s, lost the world and the carpet under its feet.

The PaSoK, which dominated the political life of the country for more than thirty years, collapsed during the years of the economic crisis and suffered electoral decline. The New Democracy has also experienced ups and downs from time to time with changes of leaders, departures of its executives, integration of others and so on.

However, any crises of political formations in the post-political period never had the intensity and complete lack of political culture, which the main opposition party has been displaying for a long time now.

All against all. Public recriminations at the level of teenage conflicts, absolute approaches, insults, humiliating characterizations against political opponents. Absence of political positions in the confrontations and images of fragmentation that remind not of a political entity which is the official opposition of the country but groups of student factions.

Political parties are not only programs, pursuits of power and ideological platforms. Primarily, they are a living example for citizens, an example of political behavior, democratic functioning, respect for the opinions of others, clear procedures.

None of this appears in the official opposition party, which is suffering from a deep dissolution crisis, proving that its foundations were fragile and the ethos of politics was only in words.

A pity because he ruled, as he did, the country for more than five years and today he holds the important position of the official opposition…