For some unknown reason PASOK and opposition believe that citizens are concerned with toxicity and popularity.

For seven years, but especially in the last 3 years, citizens have been sending clear messages regarding their choices for stability and perspective, for security and development, only they don’t seem to be reaching the opposition parties that, unable to formulate and implement a policy that can be described as an alternative, have chosen toxicity and populism.

Promises without impact, money trees and a bidding contest between them, combined with catastrophism, insults and slanderous attacks that also become personal, make up the puzzle of opposition tactics reminiscent of the upper and lower squares as well as the 1980s.

A kind of neo-Aurianism has made its appearance with the aim of creating a negative climate intending to hit the morale of the ruling party’s executives with media and especially social media showing a scene far from reality. Suffice it to note that the vast majority of citizens – in all polls – have a negative opinion of the opposition parties’ tactics.

For example, in the poll by Marc published in “Proto Thema”, citizens consider that only 15% of them believe that PASOK is doing the best opposition among the parties and is even in first place.

It is the same poll that shows that the ruling party is recording gains in both its share of the vote intention and in the estimation that exceeds 31% with a difference that is more than double the percentage of PASOK, which is in second place. This position will potentially be challenged by the emergence of new parties such as those of Alexis Tsipras and Maria Karystianou.

The bottom line of the polls, even those that record attrition for ND, is that the opposition parties are not convincing. Even more unconvincing are their leaders who register single-digit percentages, such as Nikos Androulakis, who is in second place – Tsipras and Karystianou are not included in the count – with just 7.7%.

At the same time, while the parties are screaming about corruption or the wiretapping issue, citizens rate the government positively at 38.5% and consider Kyriakos Mitsotakis the most suitable candidate for prime minister at 32.8%, with the difference between him and second-placed Androulakis at 25.1%, which says a lot.

Even more, while they are shouting, catastrophizing, denouncing and blaming personally the Prime Minister and the government officials as a whole, the MPs and even the members and voters of ND, the majority is in favour of the measures taken to deal with the problems caused by the crisis created by the conflict in the Middle East and the additional ones announced.

Simply put, the opposition – PASOK and other relatives – once again certify with their tactics and rhetoric that they are far from the majority of citizens and their anxieties by attempting to transfer their problem of political survival to society.