{"id":1340,"date":"2026-04-18T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:50:00","slug":"zacharias-zupis-whoever-guarantees-security-will-prevail-not-the-new-thessaloniki-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1340","title":{"rendered":"Zacharias Zupis: Whoever guarantees security will prevail, not the new &#8220;Thessaloniki programs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <b>Zacharias Zoupis<\/b> analyzes the political situation against the backdrop of a volatile geopolitical environment and makes a key point about the next election.<\/p>\n<p> <b>Zacharias Zoupis<\/b>, seeing the trends of public opinion and the fluid geopolitical and economic environment at the international level, stresses that the one who will win and score points in the next national elections is not the one who will feed rabbits with straws, &#8220;new Thessaloniki programs&#8221; as he says, but the one who will prove that he can offer security and stability in a rapidly changing world.<\/p>\n<p>In the same article in <b>liberal<\/b>, the well-known pollster analyzes the fact that the opposition, instead of offering solutions and alternatives, has engaged in a witch hunt with either existing or non-existent scandals, doing the job of a politician instead of that of a prosecutor. And the worst part, he argues, is the hypocrisy because they are acting as if they have discovered buffoonery for the first time and have elevated it as the main topic of discussion.<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to say that hypocritical moralizing, obsession with scandalology, &#8220;no to everything&#8221; and inarticulate cries for show on social media are not going to benefit opposition parties. On the contrary, they exacerbate the crisis in the political system and lead to a dead end for those citizens who are looking for serious opposition.<\/p>\n<h3>The opposition deadlock<\/h3>\n<p>And reading the polls, he explains that <b>PASOK<\/b> does not seem to gain anything significant from this tactic either, while the so-called anti-systemic vote is going to be channeled to many parties that will fight for second, third and fourth place. As he writes, the opposition now avoids taking positions on important political issues about the future of the country and what is happening globally in general while instead issuing dozens of statements of moralistic content.<\/p>\n<p>As for the government, he comments that in many cases it does not understand the magnitude of the problem and is facing a fait accompli at its expense. He cites as an example the Tempe issue last year with its countless fake news and the organised social media campaign, which he realised when it was already too late at the communication level.<\/p>\n<p>And he even concludes by saying that somewhere here the&#8230; narrative of opposition parties about &#8220;parastatism&#8221; collapses, as the government either sends cases to the prosecutor by its own actions (e.g. <b>OPEKEPE<\/b>), or is unprepared for organized attacks against it by powerful centers seeking its downfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zacharias Zoupis analyses the political situation against the backdrop of the volatile geopolitical environment and makes a key point for the next few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}