{"id":9867,"date":"2026-06-10T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=9867"},"modified":"2026-06-10T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:06:00","slug":"the-narrative-of-political-change-and-the-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=9867","title":{"rendered":"The narrative of &#8220;political change&#8221; and the reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be that in <b>polls <\/b>60%<\/b> of respondents talk about <b>&#8220;political change&#8221;<\/b>, but when the question is clearer the facts change.<\/p>\n<p>One narrative on which the <b>parties <\/b>of the <b>opposition <\/b>and their leaders are treading is that of the &#8220;political change&#8221; that the majority of citizens supposedly want. Except that this narrative is based on a somewhat <b>vague question<\/b> that is not accompanied by what the political change will be and by whom or by whom it will be made.<\/p>\n<p>Since the majority appears to simultaneously opt for <b>stability<\/b>and <b>security <\/b>and given also that so-called &#8220;political change&#8221; does not determine the party and the person who will bring it, one element of the <b>Interview<\/b> poll is of particular interest.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, when asked &#8220;what is the main <b>factor<\/b> that will influence your <b>vote<\/b> in the next election&#8221; the responses are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8220;I will vote based on <b>program<\/b> of their party that will solve at least one problem for me&#8221; 43%<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8220;I will vote for <b>political change<\/b>&#8221; 39%<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8220;I will vote for <b>traditionally <\/b>the party I belong to&#8221; 15%<\/p>\n<p>That is, voting for <b>political change <b>is <b>superior<\/b> to voting for solving problems and having programs from the parties that will be in the next national election. And this is possibly the reason why the <b>ND<\/b> and <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/b>remain dominant in the political scene.<\/p>\n<p>In essence, we are talking about the <b>protest vote<\/b> as opposed to the vote for stability and problem solving. A vote for stability that also leads to solving problems, especially those of everyday life, rather than false promises that give solutions with magic wands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In polls, 60% of respondents may talk about &#8220;political change&#8221;, but when the question is clearer, the data changes.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867","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=9867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}