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From the elections of May 6, 2012, seven parties passed the threshold of 3% of the votes: “New Democracy” with 19.6% and 108 members of parliament, “Syriza” with 16.4% and 52 members, “PASOK” with 13.5% and 41 members, “Independent Greeks” with 10.5% and 33 members, “KKE” with 8.4% and 26 members, “Golden Dawn” with 6.9% and 21 members, and “Democratic Left” with 6.0% and 19 members.

These parties will staff the new parliament and, if the unlikely happens and they cooperate, a government may be formed that will have the confidence of parliament.

Political commentators stressed that these elections marked the end of the “post-dictatorship period” that began in 1974, through the rejection of the large parties, New Democracy founded by Konstantinos Karamanlis and PASOK founded by Andreas Papandreou, two mediocre personalities without special qualifications who were “worshipped,” not without benefit, by millions of their followers during life and after death.

The large rise in votes for the Coalition of the Radical Left, Syriza, and its emergence as the second strongest party came as a surprise.

The entry into parliament of the “Popular Association - Golden Dawn” was startling because it is a far-right party of national-socialist or Nazi orientation.

Analysts attribute these developments, the enormous reduction in the power of the two parties that had been large until the elections, to the disappointment and anger of the people, who with their vote rejected the excessive economic burdens, the reductions in wages and pensions and the adoption of restrictive austerity measures within the framework of the two memoranda signed with foreign lenders.

In other words, citizens voted for the three parties of the far left, Syriza, KKE and Democratic Left, the one party of the national-socialist far right and the protest splinter of the former New Democracy minister, rejecting the misguided and extreme economic measures because of which unemployment increased, far exceeding one million, production was reduced to zero, the income of workers fell and cities were flooded by countless armies of migrants, mainly Muslims.

All this happened without any hope being instilled for improvement of the wretched social situation.

The parties that prevailed, old and new, are incapable of fulfilling their incoherent promises and cannot reach an understanding on the formation of a government, because of egoisms, vanity, lust for office and the other defects that characterize underdeveloped peoples.

Our people do not have the ability to decide by the criterion of reason and their own interest, regardless of the misleading hymns raised to them by petty politicians.

The people make their decisions while being dragged about by fanatical demagogues who, with their insolence, manage to impose their insignificance through stupid slogans.

This is exactly what happened in the latest elections. The unmoored people, carried away because of lack of education, blinded by flattery, slogans and empty promises from politicians of the extremes, voted for parties made in the image and likeness of the voters.

Observing the elected members of parliament, the objective judge finds that they are, in their majority, the same persons who had staffed the old parties, with the exception of the members of extreme Golden Dawn...

Among those elected are distinguished the prominent figures of New Democracy, the other failed figures who dissolved the economy, which the corresponding prominent figures of PASOK finished off.

In the second party of the far left, Syriza, as well as in the last far-left party, whose leader’s shallow speech causes boredom, one can distinguish the recognizable chatterers of television.

The fourth party was staffed, beyond its leader, a former minister of New Democracy, by old and failed politicians as well as by a television lawyer with empty and pompous speech.

The party of the Stalinist version of communism was likewise composed of the familiar, television-promoted cadres, led by a permanently angry journalist who allows no one to have an opinion different from her own.

The penultimate party of the national-socialist far right is staffed by unknown persons who do not inspire trust. This is due to the oddity and wildly aggressive character of its cadres, with military dress, mourning colors and obsolete rhetoric of the fanatics of the criminal German past.

The political scene did not change from the elections of May. It could not change, because the parties draw from the same reservoir of a declining, aging, demanding and maladjusted society.

The prevalence of the extremes did not improve the bad image of politicians. After all, those rejected had also been extreme in everything: extreme in statements condemning others, in promises of benefits and in fanaticism.

Candidates and elected officials do not know what dialogue, reason, judgment, civilization and politics mean.

Most staff the parties in order to serve their personal pursuits, which they dress with a false ideological coating of utopia and foolishness.

The representatives of the parties that managed to prevail are not able to harmonize with the modern era. They reproduce the past and live in the past. This is shown by their symbols, sickles and hammers, swastikas, red and black colors, warlike and intolerant slogans, insults, inability to adapt and lack of education, half-learning and inability to communicate.

The chosen ones of the “people” cannot govern. They have been trained to quarrel, to destroy and are fixed on various psychologically unclear obsessions.

The division between right and left became an irreconcilable division between pro-memorandum and anti-memorandum forces. So Manolios changed, putting his clothes on differently. And everything remained the same, tasteless and incorrigible...

For this reason the road remains open for new elections, for the preservation of chaos and endless decline, for which our tiny people are responsible, who will want to recover and become serious when it is too late, with destruction having become irreparable and hope extinguished.

Emmanouil Papadakis