“They took your gold teeth, they took your gold chain.” For every 45 minutes or 10 minutes of television political coverage, the time before the election seems to increase. “They take your homes, they take your life. Why; May I know the reason?”

The regulation provides equal treatment in terms of the duration of their viewing. election videos from sides which will be on the ballot next Sunday, and if anyone forgets to turn on the TV for a while, they will probably hear the leader of a small group inquiring about the missing dentures of his potential voters.

This is a good scenario. Among its 36 parties and coalitions of parties upcoming elections there are some who challenge the basic conventions of political correctness in relation to science, flirting with the spread of fake news and hate speech – and so on as part of the required viewing.

Democracy is, of course, more resilient than the individual recipients of a controversial political position. Like this party that opposes vaccination against coronavirus, no longer with the well-played argument that vaccines are a “Trojan horse” for installing microchips, but that the whole process is a bastion of population control, familiar with the process of transferring personal data to authorities. Somewhere here they confuse the concept of a “city of 15 minutes”, an urban proposal where accessibility and equality in meeting the basic needs of citizens prevail, with the issuance of a vaccination certificate, which thus leads to creation of city prisons where everything is close and therefore no one should go far from home or does it only by issuing a certificate of movement. If you’re confused, fine. This was probably the purpose of the political message.

The first comparison of minor parties in this election shows a correlation with the anti-vaccination movements that emerged in the midst of the pandemic. Several combinations call on the electorate to rally around distrust of the danger of the coronavirus and the measures being taken to combat it.

“There is no preventive control mechanism”

In response to question “K” about mechanisms to prevent the spread of unscientific messages, ESR President Mr. Athanasios Koutrumanos explained that there is no preventive control mechanism for election videos. “We are responding to legal questions filed by the media regarding the broadcast content of messages or the presence of candidates.” One of the channel’s questions was whether candidates from political parties could appear on TV shows wearing masks. Not protective masks from coronavirus, but Halloween ones. The ESR issued a negative opinion on the grounds that it did not reflect the seriousness of the process.

seats for the death penalty, possession of weapons for the “protection of the family and home”, against abortion and for its abolition the right to adopt children by homosexuals they are also found in the advertised political programs of the parties. Except that adoption by same-sex couples is not legal in Greece. But this is not the only case of deliberate misinformation of the public in order to create an impression. Accordingly, election videos are full of fakes about the rights of immigrants, which should take precedence over the rights of Greek citizens. Somewhere around here comes the turn of benefits: “A loan of 100,000 euros to every couple who will marry tomorrow, with a four-year benefit and no interest,” says someone at the head of the gallant combination. “If this couple has two children in four years, they will be given a loan.” The money, he adds, will be found “where they have it (?), and they give it to smugglers by the billions every year.”

Sometimes with peaceful music in the background, and sometimes interrupting the political stance for a “sticky” musical propaganda hiatus that you (almost) want to listen to again, small party commercials that are thrown into the electoral arena have an appropriate aesthetic for their political presentation. One leader, sitting in a secluded office amid religious images, declares “categorically against digital electronic numbering” (sic) of citizens, another makes a public speech to the applause of a non-existent audience. It reminds me of a laugh from an American sitcom. “Even if you block our media, we will enter your homes from everywhere”says another candidate prophetically. “You are dealing with people who are harassing you all over the country. They interfere with your sites, they interfere with your Facebook, they interfere with your pages, they interfere with you, and, of course, you are trying to make them disappear,” he concludes.

With clear references to the nationalist space, none of these parties is devoid of policy statements about the Greek-Turkish language. “Erdogan is Pontius? Pontius and me! Should I laugh or cry,” asks one of the candidates. However, some of us who have watched all the political videos have done almost both.