Zoe Konstantopoulou<\/b>, with the ally of social media fake news, constantly resorts to name-calling, irony and theatrical coronations in an attempt to convince herself that she is the only one who practices opposition.<\/p>\n
The fact that Zoe Konstantopoulou feeds politically on toxicity<\/b>, tension and constant opposition is now well known. In her case, moreover, the old popular dogma “say, say, something will stay” seems to apply perfectly, even if for it to stay it has to be preceded by one more fight, one more personal attack or one more explosion inside the parliament. <\/p>\n
The picture of the last few days in the House has been telling. Not because there were a few verbal confrontations, in which she is at the centre, these are now considered almost expected, but because it was revealed<\/b> that her raised fist in 2015 before the referendum was not after all a “call” to the indignant (her political tank), but her permanent identity. <\/b><\/p>\n
In short, the incessant need to be at the centre of the tension necessarily leads her to a logic of even using fake news to stay communicatively afloat.<\/p>\n
In illustrative of this, in the recent debate on OPEKEPE, the president of the Electoral Alliance repeated her whole familiar political arsenal about “corruption”, “cover-up”, “criminal organization”, “bog” and “interconnectedness”, even going so far as to announce “bars” for her political opponents. <\/b><\/p>\n
While she even managed to attack KKE<\/b> MP, Maria Komninakas<\/b>, when the cameras were even turned off. And of course with infant-level arguments. The debate was derailed into references to family relationships, family ties and personal spikes, with the session being interrupted and the mood more reminiscent of a TV-era brawl… of the indignant.<\/p>\n
And this was another link in a chain of constant conflicts that Zoe Konstantopoulou herself has created with almost everyone: With New Democracy, with PASOK, with SYRIZA, with the KKE, with presidents of the Parliament, with judicial officials, with journalists, and even with relatives of victims or persons who were originally politically close to her.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n“Antisystemic… superiority<\/b><\/h3>\n
Her<\/b> political presence now seems to be based on a durable logic of moral superiority<\/b>, where others are presented either as accomplices or as part of a “system” that needs to be denounced. It is no coincidence that even opposition MPs often distance themselves from its rhetoric. For it is one thing to have a tough political debate and another to create – on a permanent basis – a climate of siege, where every disagreement is dubbed a cover-up and every opponent is presented as something like a political or moral suspect.<\/p>\n
She attempts to present herself as an “anti-systemic” voice.<\/b> But the constant hyperbole has begun to work in reverse, just as new formations are beginning to do her harm. And she, instead of learning from her… ailments (already the House has lifted its immunity on most issues<\/b>), chooses to take the conflict to a personal level. Name-calling, ironies, theatrical crowns and scenes of tension are – in short – an integral part of her political identity.<\/p>\n
Somehow, the president of the Liberty Front<\/b> seems to invest more and more in a political culture that resembles more permanent online indignation than an organised parliamentary presence. In terms of political activism rather than institutional function, the institutional function it supposedly championed at the time when, thanks to Alexis Tsipras, it held the country’s third constitutional office, that of Speaker of the Parliament.<\/b><\/p>\n
The question, of course, is how long this strategy will continue to pay off politically, although it seems – at least in terms of polls – that it has recently been losing strength due to the presence of other parties. Based on… experience, Mrs Konstantopoulou is not going to change her strategy, even if she has to go to extremes. She believes, after all, that if she brings the social media fake news to Parliament and intersperses it with her own allegations, she will gain points over her opponents. And, in fact, she will claim that she is the only one who opposes Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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