Qualitative survey data recently received by Maximos Palace show that a large percentage of Greek citizens does not accept the traditional terms “left, center and right”.which has been a divisive link in the political system for decades, and follows completely different criteria in its electoral behavior.

The analytics is revealing: in the age group from 17 to 24 years old, 27.7% do not believe in the traditional division. The population of this age group is 1,111,350. Thus, according to statistics, about 307,000 citizens do not define themselves in traditional terms. In the age group of 25-39 years old, where 1,843,818 people live, 20.5%, that is, 378,000 citizens, do not believe in the traditional division. In the 40-54 age group, where there are 2,397,014 people, 25.8% say they do not believe in the Left, Center, Right axis, i.e. approximately 618,000 citizens. These figures decline with older age, but they still exist here. In particular, in the age group 55-64 years old, which is 2,214,915 people, 17.6% are not located along the left-right axis, that is, out of 2,407,856 people. It follows from the above figures that only about 2,033,000 citizens choose what to vote for without stereotypical ideological criteria.

This number is especially high when you consider that in the last elections New Democracy won independence with 2,251,618 votes, while SYRIZA received a total of 1,781,057 votes. In fact, this is a “big party”, which, probably, part of it does not even go to vote, since 57.7% went to the last elections.

Especially new ages are not located, according to measurements, on the Left-Right axis.

This reality is even more pronounced in the 17-54 age group, where an average of 25% do not choose a party based on old political views. The result of this large percentage is what we see in movement polls that would have been incredible in past decades. SYRIZA voters move to the northwest. and vice versa, while we even see spillovers from one end of the political spectrum to the other. A typical case is the Kasidiaris party, which has made headlines for the imminent passage of a provision banning its participation in elections. Experienced sociologists tell K that most of the voters of this party elect it with anti-systemic springs, with the same ease with which a former top manager of the Golden Dawn votes, he would vote for an anti-systemic party and to the other end.

Megaros Maximos is aware of this new trend that has emerged in recent years. “Traditional divisions are speaking to fewer and fewer people,” a government official tells K, thus explaining many of Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ positions in the past.

It was April 2022 when the prime minister, speaking at a party event, said that “the format of ‘left or right’ does not seem to fit our time” and “is giving way to the dilemma of progress or regression.” The premier then referred to the government’s achievements, including the digital transformation of the state, saying that “all these nice things are neither right, nor center, nor left. They are correct and progressive.”

Megaron Maximos is constantly looking at this category of citizens who do not follow the old dividing lines and only care about the quality of their lives. “We have taken measures that respect the citizen and prove that this faction always puts the citizen at the center of its interests,” a government source tells K, adding that there appear to be “new dividing lines” that “will shape the political landscape and how we will go to the next national elections.” Maximos considers this approach an additional political weapon before the elections, since at the same time “Alexis Tsipras is playing politics with old slogans.” The last dilemma he raised in his keynote speech at Peristeri was “Democracy or Mitsotakis”, a slogan that refers to divisions dating back to the beginning of the last century, when the “democratic faction” opposed the “conservatives”. This particular tactic, they believe in Maximos, clearly speaks of a politicized and already defined world, but does not break the party seals in the form in which they were formed. The clash of these diametrically opposed approaches will intensify as we get closer to the elections.