{"id":4908,"date":"2026-05-11T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4908"},"modified":"2026-05-11T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:20:00","slug":"electoral-chatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4908","title":{"rendered":"Electoral chatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the&#8230; resumption of the election rant or otherwise election chatter, we find that the sense of humour has been lost.<\/p>\n<p>The scene from the famous serial has been repeated: the Prime Minister, questioned by a member of parliament after the meeting of the parliamentary group of ND about the timing of the elections, he replied, &#8220;The only certainty is that they will take place after the TIF.&#8221;<b> He didn&#8217;t want the humour to become news and revive the early election scenarios.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Obviously the elections will happen someday, but from the &#8220;someday&#8221; to the point where it is considered certain that the PM has decided that the elections will be held next September or October &#8211; even naming dates like the 27th and 4th respectively (the latter date coinciding with the ND&#8217;s birthday) &#8211; shows that <b>the sense of humour was lost.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Does anyone seriously believe that <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/b>, who has asked his MPs to stop the &#8220;election chatter&#8221; and focus on their work as he remains committed to 2027, in the midst of a global crisis watching his government shut down and the government&#8217;s&#8230; goes &#8220;for a walk&#8221; to get votes?<\/p>\n<p><b>For those who have lost their sense of humour there is a serious reading of the PM&#8217;s &#8220;quote&#8221;: That there is no chance of a surprise in 2026.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the&#8230; resumption of the election blather, we find that the sense of humour has been lost.<br \/>\n The scene from the famous &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908","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=4908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}