🇬🇷 Greek politics and elections

[Antonio the Sixth]

"Somehow PASOK returned"

[Antonio the Sixth]

There has been a serious electoral development, the main center-left party SYRIZA is in internal crisis after the purge of it's most popular and vocal MP over his allegations that the greek judiciary is corrupt.

An own goal by Tsipras really, corruption in the greek judiciary is so widely perceived that has even been used internationally to refuse legal extraditions to Greece in some occasions.

By purging the MP who made those allegations he invites critisism that he himself is corrupt, just before an election.

However there is also the perception that he had no choice, after the government passed an amendment to the electoral law allowing it to ban political parties, opposition parties are now on their toes not to give a pretext to be banned.

That seems uh. A bit concerning. Is Mitsotakis trying to go full Orban?

[Antonio the Sixth]

It would be hilarious if ND comes out ahead this election, promptly calls a new one to get the majority bonus, and then somehow SYRIZA pulls ahead gets the majority bonus. That's unlikely of course, but not impossible if we're assuming 3+ months of campaigning in between elections.

[Antonio the Sixth]

It would be hilarious if ND comes out ahead this election, promptly calls a new one to get the majority bonus, and then somehow SYRIZA pulls ahead gets the majority bonus. That's unlikely of course, but not impossible if we're assuming 3+ months of campaigning in between elections.

I don't see how Syriza, specially led by Tsipras, would benefit with the ND collapse due to the train disaster. In fact, the privatization of the Greek train company was done back in 2016, when Tsipras was PM. I mean, everytime he attacked ND on the disaster and the on lack of investment, he would be asked "Sure, but you were also PM and in fact sold it to the Italians. What is your responsibility in all of this?"

I never said anything about the train disaster? Read my post again.

[Antonio the Sixth]

The senior judge that critisized the government yesterday over it's continuous last minute changes of the electoral law was forced to resign.
The governing ND party now gets to appoint his replacement.

What do these last-minute changes consist of?

[Antonio the Sixth]

The senior judge that critisized the government yesterday over it's continuous last minute changes of the electoral law was forced to resign.
The governing ND party now gets to appoint his replacement.

What do these last-minute changes consist of?

Instead of litigating the objectivity of the poster who made this claim, it would have been nice if someone could have actually discussed the specific claims involved by, you know, answering my question.