If anything makes yesterday significant, if anything caught the attention of the people, it’s the community support package.
Yesterday was significant. Everyone was commenting on the debate in parliament, on which New Democrat MPs would not vote for the waiver of immunity and other important things for the TV panels. But the debate in parliament was bored by the opposition repeating the same arguments, the same atavisms from the opposition that lead it to a dead end, while all those allegedly involved were asking for their immunity to be lifted so they could go to justice.
Nobody from the opposition was listening to them, since they have already declared them guilty. Where will it go though. We’ll know in a little while. What will the same people who have already convicted them say, when and if most of them are acquitted for example? But who cares now? The thinking is what to cut, what to gain.
No strategy, no political thinking beyond confusing moralizing by those clothed in a supposedly self-evident “political virginity.” There was also no “guerrilla” by NZ MPs against the waiver of immunity that was expected, so no “rabbit” came out of the woodwork. So one chapter seems to end with losses for the government to watch. Maybe not as big as it seemed from the first count, but let’s not be too hasty. We’ll see.
If anything makes yesterday significant, if anything caught people’s attention, it’s the community support package. Sorry, but you don’t call a €500m package small. After all, the opposition reactions were on the level of “we proposed it long ago”, “it’s insufficient”, “the government has no overall strategy” and the usual.
These types of reactions are a bit reminiscent of the covid period when every package the government handed out was deemed inadequate and in the end the criticism was that the government had given out too much and so got the people’s vote. What can one say? Just a question: What strategy are they talking about? Here mother loses mother and child loses mother with what is happening globally, economists write about the danger of international recession, etc. Is there anyone who, if they were in government, would have some magic package that would solve everything and just in case, while the global economy may soon be shaken?
These characteristics of the opposition both in parliament and in the reactions to the economic measures show the limits within which all parties are locked in a deadlock. Society understands this, even that part of society that does not want to hear about Mitsotakis. It is therefore logical that it is looking for other solutions, and this search and mobility that feeds other forces that have declared themselves present.
The opposition, therefore, all the parties that make it up more or less are opening their own corridors to Maria Karystianou and A. Tsipras. At this moment, the plates on which the current correlations are based are moving and the emergence of the two new parties may (depending on the ability they show) bring a political earthquake that will affect the current opposition. The former Prime Minister, absorbing SYRIZA, New Left and side-stepping PASOK and part of Pleisi Eleftherias and at the same time on the other hand Maria Karystianou, pushing Pleisi Eleftherias, Hellenic Solution, Voice of Logic, right and left antisystemic audiences. In this scenario, ND will pass unscathed with minimal losses, but the opposition space will have been transformed.
So rain is coming, rain is coming… Let some people be careful and see what they can do, because it won’t be the polls’ fault. It will be their minds.
*This article was published at liberal.gr
