This
is probably the most suitable time for SYRIZA to play the strongest
card
by system
failure
As we
approach the typical end by 30th June, of the four-month truce period
between the Greek government and the lenders, some scenarios for
possible new national elections come back.
Plutocrats
who are represented by the institutions (ECB, IMF, European Commission), probably thought that this
would be another easy game through the usual tactics of threats and
blackmails launched in everyday basis by their mechanisms. Their
target, as always, is to force the Greek government to abandon
progressively its red lines. The fact that they didn't manage to do
it yet, is because Tsipras administration still enjoys high support
by the Greek people.
The Greek
government brings back the possibility of new national elections as a
response to the increasing pressure by the lenders. The Greek
neoliberal opposition, as well as the mainstream media journalists,
repeat all the time that current government has fresh order by the
people and therefore there is no meaning for the country to proceed
in another electoral process so soon. Apparently, they have their own
reasons, as they see that the gap between SYRIZA and New Democracy is
still quite big, according to recent polls.
At this
point, all sides appear to be trapped. The lenders may partly retreat
because they don't want to risk an accident, hoping that they will
manage to drag SYRIZA progressively towards their lines. SYRIZA may
bring a moderate agreement which would be impossible to "pass"
through the most radical part of its parliamentary team, or, through
the other coalition party, Independent Greeks. The opposition,
whether will vote for the agreement, or not, has no chance to regain
power.
In case of
such an agreement, what would be the meaning of elections indeed?
Should a Leftist government ask the vote of people to apply new hard
measures, even in one of its three basic red lines (labor
legislation, insurance legislation, pensions-salaries)? Certainly
not.
Therefore,
in that case, new elections would be meaningful only if SYRIZA show
determination and speak clearly and openly to the people. SYRIZA
should ask wide majority in order to bring a deal without sacrificing
a single point of its red lines. Then, in case that the lenders
insist, SYRIZA should say that it has plan B, which is the exit from
eurozone and return to national currency.
The
possibility of Grexit became mature in the Greek public opinion,
despite the propaganda of catastrophe that is still active for
obvious reasons (why-greek-elite-doesnt-want-grexit)
by the systemic establishment. Maybe it's time for SYRIZA to show
determination and speak clearly. In case that will recieve a clear
win by wide majority in national elections, the lenders will realize
that SYRIZA is not bluffing and that the Greek society is determined
even to abandon the common currency.
As it is
certain that the tough battle in the European arena will be continued
at least until the Spanish elections, such a move by the Greek side
would bring plutocrats' puppets to a more difficult position.
Therefore, it would leave them with even less choices in this
peculiar class warfare.
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