What four years ago SYRIZA contested by poll, it was emphatically fixed, not amenable to contestation or second reading, in yesterday’s ballot boxes. The official opposition party suffered a heavy defeat in the elections, which might have been less or more manageable if Kumunduru had “read” differently the insistent message that in all polls sent citizens. Instead, the party leadership chose to continue the discredited opinion poll line and the theory that there is a still river. voters, which is not recorded and gives the ballot box a different result from the poll. Perhaps it was an approach based on the experience of 2012, or a hidden hope that what happened then, the failure of the polls to record the rapid growth of SYRIZA, could be repeated in 2023.

But the samples have been there all along. The Pulse opinion polls time series shows that over the course of four years, SYRIZA moved between 22.5% and 26.5% in the opinion polls, failing to come close to the percentage it received in the opinion polls. elections 2019 (31.53%) and failing to collect losses from the government, which coped with a series of crises, made mistakes, had its black pages and scandals.

An important aspect of SYRIZA’s failure in the polls is undoubtedly the fact that in these four years it has not been able to activate those processes that would allow it to strengthen its position as a dominant representative. Center left, in the context of the new bipolarity. SYRIZA even though she had a car simple analogue, failed to “talk” with smaller political forces in space, forge alliances, or absorb smaller figures. Something that should be the expected logical extension of the initiative to change the electoral law and for the resulting need for broader consensus to make sense. Instead, there have been moves towards divisive pluralism that small parties in the space have used precisely to justify their refusal to join an official opposition party or to strengthen their case in demanding voters from the centre-left pool. .

The Komundur was never able to recover damages from the government, which has managed a number of crises and, as Mr. Mitsotakis admitted, also made mistakes.

It is now clear that in Kumundur they failed to repair the damage caused by the pre-election period of rampant embezzlement in 2015 and subsequent adventurous management. His campaign strategy then cast a heavy shadow over the current campaign period, during which SYRIZA’s promises that it now “knows and can” have been treated with particular reservations. And the Tempe crisis has highlighted something else: in the minds of voters, SYRIZA is now part of the problem, not a potential solution provider. Thus, SYRIZA did not benefit from the losses that the government temporarily received from Tempi. Voters seemed to be bypassing the official opposition party and heading towards smaller parties.

Opportunism

And when SYRIZA decided to talk about a front of progressive forces and alliances against what she called the “worst opposition government” (another incorrect statement based on the results of yesterday’s elections), everyone turned their backs on him. Because his move was read as extreme opportunism and a rescue attempt when it turned out that the road to the elections was not so rosy and the deterioration of the government was not what Kumunduru expected or hoped for.

To all this was added a series of own goals in the final segment of the pre-election period, which further “blurred” the picture.