Neoliberal
government weaker than ever tries to impose predetermined conditions
by system
failure
Recent euro
elections gave a clear historical win for the Left in Greece. The
main Leftist party SYRIZA have won by a difference nearly 4 pc and
this was an alarming fact for many inside and outside Greece.
The
neoliberal government will try to avoid possible national elections
soon, but this would not be very easy since the term of the Greek
presidency ends in February 2015 and any person suggested for the
presidency will require at least 180 votes from the parliament. It is
almost certain that SYRIZA will try to block the suggested person by
the neoliberal government, which is weaker than ever with minimum
support in the parliament, and therefore, very difficult to collect
the required number of votes.
The next
possible steps by Samaras administration will be to change the
electoral law and impose predetermined conditions for a possible
future Leftist government. Under current electoral law, the first
party in Greece takes a bonus of 50 seats in the parliament in case that wins a plurality of votes. Samaras' partner and leader of PASOK
Socialist party, Evangelos Venizelos, has already claimed that the
electoral law should be changed after the recent euro elections
results. It seems that the neoliberals inside and outside Greece are
doing everything to prevent a Leftist government to come to power.
The
mainstream media in Greece have already fixed the image of the
neo-nazi party Golden Dawn, especially with the help of the Baltakos
scandal (http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.politics&id=1839)
in order to be ready to join New Democracy for a possible coalition
if necessary.
On the other
hand, the political situation is very unstable in Greece and no one
can truly predict the result of possible national elections.
Therefore, Samaras administration will try to impose preferable
people in key positions in order to limit the ability of a Leftist
government to make its own moves. According to some information,
Samaras will ignore SYRIZA's request for a discussion on the person
who will replace George Provopoulos, current governor of the Bank of
Greece. The government is preparing current Minister of Finance,
Yannis Stournaras for this position. Stournaras is the "favorite
boy" of Troika and Berlin and one of the most dedicated to
neoliberal destructive policies.
According to
other information, Troika lenders will go further since they are
planning to force SYRIZA to officially accept their conditions for
treating Greece's debt problem, in order to play by their rules and
secure big banks' interests, even in case that SYRIZA will come to
power.
Samaras will
probably risk to allow national elections quite soon, probably just
after the summer period, in order to maintain its current power,
holding back the new measures. In case that his party, Nea
Dimokratia, will manage to form a new coalition government with
Golden Dawn and other neoliberal forces like PASOK and 'River'
political party
(http://adiritos.blogspot.gr/2014/05/a-banking-media-establishment-creation.html),
he will gain precious time to impose the new measures and complete
the Greek experiment successfully. A broad win for the Left in
possible national elections, is probably the only hope against this
nightmare scenario according to which the experiment will be expanded
throughout Europe, although the war against such a government in
Greece, will be pitiless.
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