In terms of a simple analogy, what the big political forces are really looking for is the “old bipartisanship.” Could you SYRIZA politicize in the name of progressive governance, but they would not say no to a percentage approaching 45%, while the stated goal N.D. must exceed second election 38% to secure absolute parliamentary majority. The last time the formation recorded such a high figure was in 2009, when George Papandreou’s PASOK party came to power with 43.94%. The “violent adjustment” of May 6, 2012 marked a turning point in the modern political and electoral history of the country. More than two million voters left PASOK and ND. one million. Together with SYRIZA, three of them affected only 49%.

Recovery

Signs of a substantial rebound in bipartisanship have appeared on the previous elections. The blue faction (39.85%) regained power with a majority of 158 seats, while SYRIZA (31.53%) found itself again in the position of the official opposition. Both collectively passed the 70 percent threshold, giving a picture of the return of self-governing governments. In the eyes of many, the new bipartisan coexistence will remain, but it has now dwindled. Despite the resilience of the current government, the Tempe accident, the energy crisis and the pandemic have brought about new conditions, capturing the influence of the two “big ones” in the polls by almost 60%. The balance will shift as polarization and consolidation are expected to increase their numbers, especially if a re-vote is required.

The May 6, 2012 contest was a turning point in the modern electoral history of the country, as the New Democracy, SYRIZA and PASOK collectively “scored” only 49%.

Fluctuations in the rates of the two “big” ones after the post-colonial period have always existed in one way or another. PASOK’s consolidation in power over the eight years from 1981 to 1989 saw the percentage of the vote exceed 80%, with New Democracy trailing but chasing power in the 1985 elections. Andrea Papandreou And Konstantinos Mitsotakis began a long period of bipartisanship. In a simple analogy with the triple elections in the late 80s – and with the demand for “cleansing” – New Democracy registered a percentage that reached 46.89% in April 1990. And despite all this, the electoral system gave Konstantinos Mitsotaki only 150 seats at the time. A few months earlier, in the second elections of that period, in November 1989, N.D. (46.19%) and PASOK (40.67%) scored 86.86% together. A record figure for the post-political annals. Both parties won over 85% of the vote during Andreas Papandreou’s second term in 1985, and again in 2000 when Kostas Simitis ran into vote vote with him Kostas Karamanlis. The famous “integration of the Second Athens” brought victory to PASOK by one detachment. The polarization between them in order to collect an electoral majority led to an extremely high percentage of bipartisanship in 1993 (86.18%), when Andreas Papandreou was again in Maxima, and in 2004 with the victory of Kostas Karamanlis, reaching 85.91%. . In total, long days of bipartisanship in 11 election contests between N.D. and PASOK – from 1981 to 2009 – only three times the percentage of these two fell below 80%. In 1996 (79.61%), 2007 (79.94%) and 2009 (77.43%).

New parties

The current fluidity of the political scene arose – in addition to the memorandums – also from the entry into the political system of new parties that were created or are still being formed on the outskirts of the system (Golden Dawn, ANEL, Greek Solution, Greeks), or tried to win back a significant part of the Center (Potami, DIMAR, etc.). It’s not that the creation of formations with a political vision is unhealthy, it’s just that no one in 1981 from the three-party parliament (PASOK, ND, KKE) could imagine that in 2015, 34 years later, they would receive a ticket to the Plenum of the Eight Forces.