Yesterday’s elections mark the beginning of a major political correction, a real political earthquake, which is nothing less than the complete abandonment of the May 2012 elections.

Although we are still at the beginning of this process, the trend is quite clear: nine years later, the May 21, 2023 elections mark the cancellation of the May 6, 2012 elections, or, in other words, the political overcoming of the major political shocks of the 2010 financial crisis.

2019 confirmed the sustainability of bipartisanship in the form of New Democracy – SYRIZA. The new democracy, led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, moved decisively towards the center from the very beginning, and since 2016 it has been made responsible for the preferences of the electorate, and this position has been consolidated with impressive stability.

SYRIZA could turn into a “normal” centre-left party. He made some sharp movements in this direction, but he himself did not believe in it. The result is a constant back and forth between political moderation and venomous hostility. Alexis Tsipras does not seem to understand that the crisis is over.

This is how he was defeated, and his defeat is likely to be sealed in the next election with the emergence of PASOK as a second party. PASOK has already surpassed SYRIZA in several prefectures.

This election proved that the discrepancy between Greece, which has come out of the crisis and looks to the future, and the politics of the period of crisis, between normality and toxicity, is also reflected on the left flank of SYRIZA, where Zoe Constantinopooulou, who changed her raised fist with smiles and heart, was at the electoral level of Varoufakis, who decided to revive in 2015.

Hearts fought with raised fists and won by a landslide. And it can only be very good. Greece has turned the page.

Mr Stathis N. Kalivas is Professor of Political Science and Gladstone Chair at the University of Oxford.