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Written by Thanos Kalamidas - OVI Magazine   
Thursday, 08 October 2009


Days before the Greek national election I wrote an article emphasizing that the result of this election is very critical for all the major political parties in Greece and the period that is going to follow might change the Greek political scenery as we know it for over than thirty years since the fall of the dictatorship in mid 70s. And the day after came in a sock wave, the conservative party lost the election with the lowest record in its thirty years history – coincidentally the day of the election, October 4th, was the same day the Prime Minister’s uncle found the conservative party – and the socialists made a historic victory taking over the absolute majority in the Greek parliament.

Looking at the impressive 43.92% of the Greek Socialist Party we miss the magnificent turn of the Greek society that gave to centre-left parties over than 62% and I have the feeling that this will be the beginning of a general turn over not only in Greece but also for the rest of Europe. The last decade PASOK, the Greek socialist party has suffered from exactly the same disease that all the European socialist and social-democratic parties have suffered including the Labour Party in UK.

During the eighties and nineties the socialists and socialist-democrats in Europe enjoyed governing with the full trust and support of the people not only from their parties but from the wider society including elements from the centre-right. Occasionally some of them enjoyed full confidence again and again despite their mistakes. But that ended in late nineties and the main reason was that the socialists became regime, their passion for power made them forget the people they represented, made them arrogant and victims of their dark side. In the end the only socialist part on them was somewhere in their manifestos and the phraseology they used during their campaigns while their actions pointed to a transform to conservatives with the …wrong name. This period ended when the European societies felt that the solutions on the piling financial problems were demanding prime minsters/managers short of CEOs style instead of idealists or socialists only in the name.  The socialists and the social-democrats had abused the power the people had given them and they should go away before the damage they were doing got worst, and they did! In Greece the people send them home turning to the conservatives and hoping that something had changed on them from their former selves, a new spirit, perhaps the charismatic new and young leader. 

But the experiment with the CEO/Prime Ministers proved to be nothing more than …CEOs; self centred, opportunists that cared only for themselves and the ones that followed them perhaps increased their wealth but the same time increased the numbers of unemployed and they made the gap between poor and rich huge. And on top of that they have the arrogance to believe that whatever they do people will still vote for them because they are …charming! Silvio Berlusconi is the best example of that. A successful and ruthless businessman became Prime Minister promising that he will transform his magic from his business offices to the nation. I have the feeling that the Italians will soon follow the Greeks.

The worst thing these neo-conservative parties did the last two decades was that they awoke the monster, the cancer f the European political life; small nationalistic, racist and xenophobic parties used this lack of ideology to make a lot of noise and it is always amazing how much noise these parties can do. We saw it in France; we saw it in Greece, in Italy, in Finland! Oddly it was the conservative parties that gave them the power and the space to make all the noise and it is their failure that has made their percentages to increase.

But it is amazing how big is the quiet part of the society and the timing it has to show its power; because that’s exactly what happened in Greece this Sunday. Nobody was expecting the Greek Socialist Party to get so many votes; 43.92% is a huge percent and guarantees an easy majority in the Greek Parliament. But the 62% of the Greek centre-left is what should make everybody more aware, especially the socialists. 62% of the Greek society demands from the Socialist party, from the parliament and especially from the new Greek Prime Minister, Georgios Papandreou to do something now avoiding the mistakes both the conservatives and the former socialist governments have done. And there is a warning there, that there is no forget and forgive any more. there is no waiting. Mr. Papandreou got the 43.92% because he said that he has solutions, because he said that he has a plan and he has better act fast. Because this 62% is a warning and the same time shows him what the people expect from him.

The years away from the power gave the chance to the Greek socialist party to heal its wounds and understand that we are in the beginning of the 21st century. Green economy is not any more a marketing and promotion trick but a fact, that’s the future of a healthy economy. Education over defence expenses is not a wishful thought but a demand for a modern society and environment is a necessity. What remains is to see if the pictures of Mr. Papandreou during his campaign with his shirts’ sleeves rolled up ready to start working are …true!

 

 

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