By Antonis Anzoletou

Everything that has happened in the current parliamentary term reflects the fluid political scene that exists.

Twenty-four independent MPs are a record just a year and a half after the 2023 elections.

With her move on Tuesday, Rania Thraskia raised the “counter” even further, creating new data. With the exception of the KKE and Niki (recently one resigned), among the parties that took part in the last national elections, there is no parliamentary force that does not have losses.

New Democracy three (Antonis Samaras, Marios Salmas, Lefteris Avgenakis), PASOK one (Baran Bouchran), SYRIZA ten (Theodora Tzakri, Alexandros Avlonitis, Iota Poulos, Kyriaki Malama, Ralia Christidou, Evangelos Apostolakis, Yannis Sarakiotis, Petros Pappas , Rania Thraskia, Athena Linou) the Greek Solution one (Pavlos Sarakis), the Spartans seven (Giorgos Aspiotis, Dionysis Valtogiannis, Haris Katsivardas, George Manoussos, Michalis Gavgiotakis, Costas Floros, Yiannis Dimitrokallis) and the Pleussi Eleftherias two (Michalis Khourdakis, Areti Papaioannou).

It is recalled that SYRIZA still has 11 resignations in its portfolio, as the parliamentary group of the New Left was formed a year ago. The Spartans, with five MPs, no longer have room for independence, as below this limit the possibility of forming a parliamentary group is lost.

Things are also marginal for Freedom Sailing, which is left with 6 representatives. There will be other departures, they claim from the Democracy Movement, where they take it for granted that they will form a new parliamentary group from the new year. At the moment there are nine parties in the Parliament and if this happens it will become ten. In September 2015 – in the midst of a memorandum crisis – eight formations had entered the Parliament.

Already the opinion polls do not rule out nine or even ten parties taking the ticket in the Parliament given that Voice of Reason and MeRA25 are registered at the 3% limit.

What does this show? How self-reliance for the first force, if elections were held soon, would be extremely difficult. Given, in fact, the commitment of the Prime Minister that he will not proceed with changes to the electoral law. This was repeated yesterday by the Minister of the Interior, Theodoros Livanios, during the budget debate. Since the unused balance of the parties that remain outside Parliament is very small, the bar for achieving the goal of 151 MPs rises. Based on the latest measurements, New Democracy – which is measured consistently and by a good margin first – will have to cooperate with two parties in order to be able to govern.

If it is considered that the current situation is temporary and expresses a feeling of protest and fatigue towards both the government and the powerful opposition, the exhaustion of the four-year period by Kyriakos Mitsotakis should be considered a given. Unless the political developments are such that they cannot be predicted. Otherwise, the prime minister has no reason to risk or blackmail situations. The only thing it could prevent was a possible rally of the parties of the center-left with the aim of getting in the way of the third consecutive term of New Democracy and Kyriakos Mitsotakis as prime minister.