Greek political system

Democratic political parties each time set the boundaries and determine the measure of each dispute over plans for the country’s future.

Party conventions can serve as a springboard for fashioning substantial, concrete policies, without the populism and demagoguery that bedevilled the country in the past.

Voters yesterday in the KINAL leadership election did not simply send a signal to their next leader. They sent a signal in all directions regarding the functioning of democracy.

Greek voters did their duty in the 7 July, 2019, general elections by denying the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party the three percent threshold required to enter Parliament.

Recently, main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras called the PM a Herod who kills children. Yesterday, he declared that the PM has ideological fixations and that he is fanatical and a liar.

Many households live in conditions of poverty and in the last four years the aggregate income of all Greek taxpayers was reduced by 2.4bn euros.

“The crisis found the eurozone without the necessary tools for preventing it and combating it. The Greek programme was belated. It offered inadequate means, and was excessively optimistic and incomplete,” said Venizelos