After six years of the crisis and the political system having sustained heavy injuries, one would expect that we would not have an election campaign standoff that included the same obsolete stereotypes, the same pointless and inconclusive conflicts. Unfortunately the first signs show that generally speaking the political leaderships continue to operate as if they live in a normal country, as if they are unaware that only a few weeks ago we were on the brink of the abyss.
Whoever wins the elections will be faced once more with a superficial conflict, a battle of impressions without meaning or reference to the real problems that lie ahead. While everyone knows that we have tight framework of commitments, measures and reforms ahead of us, they avoid being specific and resort to vague and unfulfilled promises or generalization to avoid commitment.
Typically, nobody dares speak the truth about one of the major problems that the next government will be called to face, namely the pension system reform. Even the caretaker government avoided appointing a minister, while at the same time there is nobody left in charge, since both the relevant general secretary and IKA’s director have resigned to run in the elections…
It also absurd, when all political leaders are fully aware that alliances and consent will be necessary after the elections, to pretend to be uncompromising and to complicate in advance the expected and necessary effort to coordinate.
The country, the economy and the people have paid dearly – and will continue to pay dearly – this exact weakness o our political system to establish the bare minimum conditions for a national consensus. The message sent by the people, that was gradually derided by all political leaders, is deafening. While there is still time, the political leaders should leave the cockfighting and try to at least rise up the demands of the times and society.
TO VIMA
