The self-identified progressive opposition is slaughtering for both second place and… third place in the election.

All against all with revelations of collusion – even to blow up the process of selecting heads to independent authorities – that were ultimately not followed, resulting in an exchange of fire and a selective silence on the part of PASOK and Nikos Androulakis.

Nikos Androulakis rails against Alexis Tsipras, Socrates Famellos responds with an attack on Nikos Androulakis, Zoe Konstantopoulou hangs Panagiotis Doudonis on the pegs and so on. A nice atmosphere that shows that the only glue is the obsession “Mitsotakis must go”, but there is nothing beyond that to show that the supposedly progressive party that bears the nickname (Centre)Left cannot be an alternative.

In just two days, citizens have found that those who identify themselves as progressives are moving with their political survival in mind,as well as that they are investing exclusively in toxicity, populism and divisive rhetoric reminiscent of the squares – upstairs and downstairs – of the indignant who set up people’s courts and hangings.

And parties, namely PASOK, that were victims of this rhetoric and character assassination do so with equal ease by choosing to appeal to an anti-systemic audience as parties of protest and supposed indignation.

In this context they compete over who will be more toxic and more populist to attract voters who move to a particular side of the system. Extreme expressions, vile attacks on the government, the prime minister and the judiciary, insults and logic that remind us of other times not just of previous decades but of a previous… century.

At the same time, they are fighting in the same… barn,but also making various under-the-table arrangements on how to deal with the ruling party with an eye on the polls and the ups and downs of their ratings.

The expected reappearance of Tsipras has driven Androulakis to the extreme and this is evident from the rhetoric he has chosen. And Alexis Tsipras remains the same and unchanged, and Socrates Famelos appears on the scene as a sort of supporter, with Zoe Konstantopoulou following her own path, although there seems to be an open channel with PASOK.

But Nikos Androulakis says he will form a government – progressive, let’s not forget – after the elections, after he wins “even by one vote”. Otherwise, all is well.