The political landscape has not changed – there is one regular and organised party in power and many party… protest.
According to polls and, despite the efforts of some to convince every time – especially in the last three years – that the rival party for Kyriakos Mitsotakis and New Democracy is emerging, there is one party on the political scene. There isn’t even the… half a party that existed in the recent past.
The Nikos Androulakis has turned PASOK into a protest party. He is seeking the negative vote by looking to a pool of voters moving to the left and beyond. Voters who appear to operate with a logic that is more or less ideological and, above all, indifferent to the course of the country by joining the sterile opposition practice of getting Mitsotakis out.
But the logic of Alexis Tsipras is similar, as evidenced by his appearances and speeches so far. Typical was his appearance on Monday night at the Theatre of Rematia where he gave a performance identical and unchanged to those he has been giving since 2011, when he was beginning to ride the wave of indignation that also led him to power.
Rhetoric of previous decades, quotes and slogans, jokes and accusations and a tactic of catastrophism, populism, divisiveness and toxicity that throws rebranding into Caiaphas are recorded along with promises and commitments that hark back to the 2014 Thessaloniki programme and the illusions that citizens paid dearly for.
The two parties vying for second place have the same policies and the same focus, but without giving the impression that they can turn into the second pole of the political scene.
And all this at a time when Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s Southwest is recording, against the polemics and smears, an image that exudes a sense of stability and security for the citizens, the silent majority that decides by judging, comparing and setting the project of perspective.
The outstretched fingers and robes do not touch the public except for those who gather in theatres to watch trivialised performances.
