By Penelope Galliou
Economic suffocation in households and businesses causing the energy crisis and its consequences, not only in Greece but throughout Europe, give birth concern to governments and analysts about what will follow politically.
Historically, economic crises and the misery and insecurity of citizens have given rise to political crises and rise of the parties of populism and nationalism. A fact that our country experienced recently, during the period of economic crisis and memoranda, when populism flourished, the extreme discourse became stronger and The percentages of the extreme right increased with the result that Golden Dawn entered the Parliament in May 2012.
The same was confirmed a few days ago, the results of the first round of the French elections. Emanuel Macron may have taken a clear lead, however the two far-right parties of Le Pen and Zemur collected a total of 30%. A percentage that not only alarmed the French and Emanuel Macron, but hit bell to all the leaderships of Europe struggling with the dissatisfaction of their citizens with the price increases and the consequences of the war in Ukraine.
The EU’s role in avoiding a crisis of populism
This concern also prevails in Greece. The same government spokesman Giannis Economou noticed that “There is no doubt that if Europe does not act immediately, in essence, as it did with the pandemic, then we will not be facing a single economic crisis that we will not be able to deal with. We will also face a new crisis of populism across Europe, which will have indefinite consequences for the European way of life as we know it.».
In this context, after all, was the position of the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in the economic forum of Delphi, who stressed the need to decide joint support measures for society at the next Summit. «“If we do not do this, we will allow the forces of populism in Europe to re-emerge stronger,” he said, adding: ” , lose the support of our peoples “said characteristically o Kyriakos Mitsotakis ringing the alarm bell.
“Butter in the bread of the opposition” to be exact
The dissatisfaction of the citizens, however have already rushed to take advantage of either the existing opposition partieswho stand against any attempt and policy of the government to stem the tide of precision and lighten the burden that the citizens are lifting anyway, or new political movements that aim to “steal” votes from the right of the government.
At the Maximos Palace, as well as at the “strategies” of the opposition parties, they are eagerly awaiting the polls in May, where the attitude of the citizens towards the government support measures that are already being implemented will be reflected. However, the measurements that have come to light so far have recorded the intense insecurity and dissatisfaction prevailing in society from price increases on energy and goods.
According to the results of the latest polls, however, ND may show a slight decline, but the SYRIZA still can not reap the recorded dissatisfaction due to the accuracy – mainly – despite the strong opposition tones it has raised. In fact, the government estimates that this picture can be reversed as it happened during the second wave of the pandemic, when the ruling party managed to reverse the climate.
Social policy “antidote” to emerging resentment
That is why they give at the Maximos Palace special importance in everyday life with a series of measures and actions that will give a breath of fresh airwith the increase in the minimum wage and tax cuts, reduction of unemployment, rapid issuance of pensions, but also cheap housing for new employees with the utilization of the real estate of OAED, as previously announced by the Prime Minister and is already being processed by the government staff.
However, the conditions of the war in Ukraine and its impact on the social level, maintains strong skepticism in the government, while hoping that the results of the second round of elections in France will awaken the EU. to act directly in the direction of a common policy of the Member States to alleviate the citizens who are groaning with precision.
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