The interconnectedness and its political associates have overextended themselves, with an overuse of scandal, toxicity and political fantasy scenarios!
Spying, espionage and scandal-mongering (see OPEKEPE), on the ramparts! Recently they are throwing into the fray the idea of alleged defections in the NWD. “They were swinging from the swings” the people say and the proverb “Whatever the fox can’t reach the hangman’s noose” completes the downfall and desperation of the domestic interconnection, the parties of opposition that march along with it and the miserable political leaders, who probably want ardently to relive the era of Psorokostaina… Or the heathlessly nostalgic for instability, chaos and… feuds.
With targeted scripting and scheming alysers from MME and opposition parties, some are making up fairy tales and legends about defections and political cracks in the Southwest. They are faced with a solid part of the electorate, as reflected in two elections and recorded in the polls, which prefers stability and reaches 40%. A homogeneous part, in an area dominated politically by the Southwest, against a summit of disparate forces, with the only connective tissue being the obsessive desire to overthrow the government. And nearby, some do-gooders who insist on finding dividing lines between technocrats and politicians and argue about the… value of the ballot box. Except these times probably don’t lend themselves to activist shows, political invention, upstart revolutionaries and petty saviors.
The widespread acceptance of a political order and security, the … overcoming of the taboo of private education, the dismantling of clientelistic trade unionism, the upgrading of entrepreneurship and the prevalence of a more modern and competitive social framework are shaping a field in which Mitsotakis and the ND government have a clear home field advantage. And perhaps only statistically the eventual entry of new parties into the political scene will reflect a rearrangement of forces, which will mainly concern the fragmented to chaotic opposition space.
The alleged ideological battles, logical contradictions and personal strategies of the leaderships cause disgust among citizens,the majority of whom are looking for clear and stable political choices and solutions. In the bloc of the opposition and their interlocking sponsors, some dream that turmoil has begun, similar to that of 1993, when Antonis Samaras brought down the government of Konstantinos Mitsotakis! A correlation that proves the desperation of an anti-Metrosotakikos system that is playing for keeps.
In 1993, a national issue was at the forefront of the news, while the then government of Constantine Mitsotakis came into direct conflict with “Muscovite” Papandrean Greece, implementing an ambitious fiscal adjustment program to prevent the country from being drowned in public debt. In 2026 the regulator of developments is Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the New Democracy, and even in their wildest dreams there in Charilaou Trikoupis, or in Amalias, or in the staff of Karystianos, or in Plysi tis Zois and Velopoulos’ Lysis, they will not easily escape from this combination.
In 1993, Greece could not differentiate itself from developments in a world that had just emerged from the Cold War, and the fall of the government of Konstantinos Mitsotakis was not the result of a generalized attrition in the polls, but of a frontal conflict over national identity. The catalyst was the Macedonian issue and newly introduced economic terms such as “primary surpluses” and “structural reforms”. Back then, the political system was strictly bipartisan. Those who didn’t want Papandreou went to ND and those who then wanted ND to leave went to PASOK and the opposition’s favourite political tactic was that of “ripe fruit”.
Today’s ND under Kyriakos Mitsotakis faces no opposition opposition opposition. With PASOK trailing the ND’s poll numbers by almost 50%, Tsipras is hoping to… play in the minor final with Androulakis, under the threat of being branded by the Karystianos party. The other devotees of the anti-Mitsotakikos bloc, Konstantopoulou, Velopoulos, Natsios, Varoufakis, Famellos and Sakellaridis (if they survive politically until the elections…), along with Kasselakis are struggling to… get down to the wire. In a rather science fiction scenario, a coalition of losers will require the cooperation of four parties, creating a political shambles, at a high price for the country and its position in international markets.
Thus, everything indicates that Mitsotakis has no rival! Hence the necessity for those in opposition to politics and interconnectedness to sow weeds, such as a climate for defections and… a desperate attempt to restore other eras, with ruptures and splits. Except that in 2026 politics and its communication is not done in terms of… Vlach mayor of the 80s and 90s and no one intends to become… a pawn of any operational “player” in alleged apostasy scenarios. Up to anger, rage and protest. Because after that, political condemnation is probably a one-way street.
