Elections with the threat of Grexit

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.