Extreme pre-election polarization – SYRIZA is measuring its strengths as well as that of … A. Samaras

By Niki Zorba

Orgasm of party work in the political scene: In KINAL, through an internal party process, the green sun returned to symbols and name, the ND has just completed a – absolutely – pre-election congress and SYRIZA for the first time in its history turns to the party base for to (re) elect its leader and the members of the Central Committee.

Extreme polarization

The road is littered with gunpowder due to extremesof a polarization as formed between the two major parties mainly. Regardless of when the elections will finally take place (the Prime Minister repeated at the end of four years), the fact is one:

The next few months (if elections take place in the autumn) or more (if Mitsotaki’s intention to go to the polls in 2023 finally succeed), will be in a harsh environment – although the external conditions and challenges facing the country require rather lower tones.

The return of the Prime Minister to strategic autonomyς from the first ballot box, the attempt of total restoration of SYRIZA to claim power and the new course of PASOK-KINAL that tries to enter a resounding “wedge” between them, creates a political cocktail, explosive.

In this environment, SYRIZA is called in seven days to weigh the limits and possibilities of its own, the next day. Σon May 15, SYRIZA members are invited to go to the polls to applaud Alexis Tsipras’s decision to open the party at its base. The bet on him, of course not is his re-election but participation. As for the emergence of the new central committee (another ballot box), it concerns the candidates and the Trends that give their own battle for “dominance”.

The internal party ballots of May 15 and A. Samaras

Τa internal party injuries between majority and Umbrella they remain wide open and constantly firing, but for SYRIZA, none of this is either unprecedented or capable of producing serious political results.

It is now established (he ruled for 4.5 years with P. Kammenos, after all, so the wine test of his internal party cohesion has passed it successfully, for a long time now) that issue of “division” is not raised. Of course, the cessation of internal party hostilities, for a long time, is not meant either. So they walk between them, this is their code, let’s go below.

For Alexis Tsipras, the … below means a decent turnout at the polls on May 15th. He calls it “Democracy Day” and reminds that the party today has about 60,000 members. Anyone who registers even on the day of the ballot, has the right to vote in the ballot for president, so the fund of how many managed to mobilize (and “move”) the party, will be done afterwards.

However, Koumoundourou’s belief that the demolition of the government sweater has begun at a rapid pace. This morale is revived for them (regardless of the fact that the polls do not record a serious rise for SYRIZA).

Besides, they also study the long-known internal party differences within the N.D. It is not new to proceed to political manifesto Antonis Samaras with spikes for the leadership of N.D., disagreements about the ideological identity of the party and its political choices (especially in the national ones). It has done so repeatedly over the last three years, with no internal party consequences. What is new, on the contrary, is that for the first time Mr. Mitsotakis “lifted up” his glove and replied to the former prime minister: With you, the ND went to 18%, with me and the enlargement strategy, to 40% …

The correlations in the new political committee of the ND are, after all, overwhelming in favor of the leadership.