Having shielded his narrow party audience, in his last measures election confrontation political leaders now openly approach voters or potential voters of other parties and seek to win them over to their side. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Alexis Tsipras And Nikos Androulakis by direct or indirect references, they ask the audience of their political opponents to turn to them. Party rallies are now very high.

At the same time, the percentage of undecided votes remains high. Thus, party headquarters are looking for ways to attract potential voters of their opponents.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis steadily in the previous days, he addressed his constituents several times PASOK separate them from the party leadership. At the same time, from Kastoria, she turned to those who turn to her right. New Republic. The choice of seat is not accidental, as in Northern Greece the ruling party is under pressure from smaller parties to its right.

One step ahead

In recent days, signaling that he sees no opportunity for a post-election partnership with PASOK, Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Heraklion, Crete, has gone even further: “An alliance with SYRIZA I don’t believe this is the path that PASOK’s friends want. Because they know well that together – we might have been in different parties – but together we resisted populism,” he said and added elsewhere in his speech that “friends of PASOK also know that together we joined some of them in great talk that in four years the country has turned the page. Thus, he addressed an indirect invitation to the voters of PASOK.

From Kastoria, he addressed “our fellow citizens who may be ‘changing’ into parties and factions moving to the right of the New Democracy. Ask them to think about who are real patriots in deed and who are patriots of “fresh water” in words. Because I effectively and worthily defended our national interests,” he said and called on them to “together to fight this fight” and “claim the rights to all those votes that can still be claimed.”

Alexis Tsipras he is trying to work on two fronts, speaking for a long time to the PASOK party audience, and more recently to the New Democracy voters, while he even spoke to the Golden Dawn voters. The front with Harilaou Trikoupis, who accuses him of trying to usurp the political heritage, slogans and symbols of Andreas Papandreou in order to attract PASOK voters, is well known. In recent days, President SYRIZA has sought to create a split within the ND by exploiting possible divisions within the ruling party’s internal “camps”. Thus, in his speech in Ioannina, he addressed “conservative citizens, conservative voters”, recalled that “former Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis once called the conflict “davacids”” and added: “Therefore, I want, Addressing conservative voters here, in Jannen, I should ask them to think twice if they become accomplices. Because it is not worth even in their faction, and above all, it is not worth it in this country to be pardoned for another four years for arrogance, corruption, injustice. It’s not worth it in our country.”

The President of SYRIZA also stated that “our goal is for those people who vote for the Golden Dawn to take them, win back the extreme right lines and the lines of anti-democratic ideology and attitudes from them and explain to them that they are not anti-systemic in order to vote for the Golden Dawn. “.

Repatriation

For my part, Nikos Androulakis, in addition to efforts to build dams that will prevent PASOK voters from draining to other parties, is seeking the repatriation of voters who have turned to SYRIZA in recent years. In this direction, Harilou Trikoupis consistently accuses Alexis Tsipras of seeking to usurp the political legacy of Andreas Papandreou. “PASOK is here, united, strong,” said Mr. Androulakis of Thissio, bringing back the party’s historic slogan. He added that “the faction founded by Andreas Papandreou has returned to the political stage as a protagonist” to show who are the real “heirs” of the political space expressed by the historical leader of PASOK.

“The more powerful PASOK, the more Mr. Mitsotakis’s power weakens,” Nikos Androulakis also said, urging centrist and centre-left voters opposed to New Democracy to turn to PASOK, its historical rival.

movements

Just prior to the ballot flow, voter movements can significantly affect the outcome of an election. Especially in the current pre-election period, when a high percentage of undecided votes is consistently recorded compared to the past. In the latest Pulse poll for SKAI last week, the so-called “gray zone”, i.e. undecided voters as well as pro-white absence/abstention voters, was 14.5%. This is a percentage that no party can ignore, since the success of the presence of a significant part of these voters may even lead to the cancellation of the election results.

In the latest poll conducted by Alco for the Alpha TV channel, the undecided counted 11%. When the difference between the first two parties is 6.7%, one can easily understand the interest in this pool of votes. Moreover, in the last segment of the elections, the parties, almost in full force, have practically exhausted the reserves of rallying their own voters. For example, in the same Alco survey, ND is 77%. The largest percentage of the rest of the party’s voters, 11.5%, is undecided, while smaller percentages belong to SYRIZA (2%), PASOK (1.5%), NIKI (3%), etc. The growth of SYRIZA is also high and reaches 77% for the official opposition party. The undecided here make up 7%, and the movements of voters – to the SW. (3.5%), KKE (3%), PASOK (2%), MERA 25 (2%), etc.