On Sunday, the Greeks choose a new Parliament. The conservative Opposition is expecting a landslide victory, the left Premier, Tsipras is battling for his political Survival.
Currently, in surveys, in the back: Prime Minister Tsipras at the time of voting to the European elections
“On Sunday morning, the election is ballot box is still empty,” warns Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. He says again and again in the election campaign, and says the following: no Matter how the polls are, should go to his trailer, and don’t be discouraged. Reason for discouragement, there are from all for the in Athens, the ruling left-wing Syriza party: The conservative Nea Dimokratia (ND) clearly leads in all the polls; according to the latest survey on Wednesday, the Conservatives have a lead of over 13 percent. Leader of the opposition, Kyriakos Mitsotakis is to be the next Prime Minister of Greece. If everything goes according to Plan, he could govern even-handedly. “We fight for every vote and want to form a strong government so that Mitsotakis his election promises also to quickly implement,” says Konstantinos Kyranakis, compared to the DW, who is running for the Conservatives in Athens.
Yet it is not, however, so far. “I believe that we will win the General election, I just want to believe in it,” says Kostas Arvanitis, the freshly elected MEP of Syriza. On surveys, reliance was not always, forecasts of all kinds are difficult, and often incorrectly, warns the left-politician in an interview with DW. And also: “Who would have thought that Liverpool and Barcelona in the Champions League return match with 4:0 beats?”, Arvanitis, of the raves by the way for Barcelona and reflected, with a dash of Humor. When it comes to defending their own policy, to stop with him the fun, however: “Syriza has brought the Job to the end of the austerity policy in Greece ended, the stables of augeas cleaned out,” says the former Journalist in the Conviction.
Has the support of Angela Merkel: the leader of the opposition Kyriakos Mitsotakis is located in January, the Chancellor
The International monetary Fund (IMF) no longer checks the finances in Hellas, evaluates it as a “great success” of the Tsipras government. That Ex-socialists-in-chief, Jorgos Papandreou brought the IMF after the outbreak of the debt crisis, after Athens, was to have been “a crime”.
Dispute over economic policy
As the leader of the opposition, Syriza-leader Alexis Tsipras had demonized the austerity conditions of the international lenders, and a generous debt cut for Greece is required. After his return to office in 2015, came the turn of the economic and political realism. But the closer election day gets, the more the Greeks feel to the old, blustering Tsipras recalls. The, in turn, provides his own explanation for the economic policy back down anno 2015: “We believe the naivety that Europe would respect the decisions of the Greek people,” he said on Tuesday in the TV channel Skai. You mean, The others were to blame.
Clearly Tsipras warns of a change of government. With Conservative chief Mitsotakis, the austerity policies would return to Greece and successful reform approaches of the last years put at risk, warns the left-Prime. The don’t want to let opposition politicians Kyranakis sit up. “The last conservative government had brought the once-rampant deficit for the first time, under the control of the country on the path of growth back”, he says. Tsipras had taken a zig-zag course and, in the end, amassed new debt in the amount of about 30 billion euros, complained Kyranakis.
Good mood among Syriza supporters in the parlamet elections in September 2015
Also Konstantinos Botopoulos, running on Sunday for the socialist party KINAL, criticized the rhetoric of Tsipras. The question, “conservative austerity policy, or left to be acts of” a dilemma for the campaign purposes, he says. In reality, Syriza have accepted the austerity requirements the creditor a long time ago.
The battle for the left voters
Tirelessly Tsipras is fighting on two fronts: Against the Conservatives, and, not least, against the apparently resurgent socialists, who for a long time in the shadows for a led, but on Sunday, after all, to a double-digit result of hope. Even if the left Prime Minister should lose the election on Sunday, will he necessarily be the minimum, and Syriza as the strongest force on the left of the political centre to establish. This is likely to succeed also. Where: For the socialist candidate Botopoulos, the question of the competing offer does not arise. Because his KINAL-party to offer a real social democratic Alternative in Hellas, he says. Syriza is neither social democratic, nor really on the left.
Also Syriza politicians Arvanitis does not consider the social Democrats as the real competition, however, from quite other reasons: “In Competition, you’re always on those of the leads or adjacent to you; the one who comes behind you, is rather unimportant,” said the left politician.