The dominance of distrust

The results of the survey, adjacent if not surprising, should beryllium troubling. A canvass by Pew Research Center, which measures the power of governmental parties successful 24 countries, captured the aggravated distrust of Greeks successful the governmental system. In fact, the state has acceptable the astir ominous record: 61% are not satisfied with either the ruling enactment oregon the main opposition. This percent places Greece successful archetypal spot connected the database of radical expressing dissatisfaction. 

At the aforesaid time, caller home polls aft the premier curate and absorption leaders spoke astatine the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) person been mapping, for some time, a definite stagnation. There are small shifts, small gains and small losses, with ruling New Democracy coming consistently first, center-left PASOK consistently second, while the spread betwixt them is hovering astatine astir 14 points. The absorption lacks momentum, the authorities is not moving from archetypal place, and there is simply a merry-go-round of questions surrounding this situation, such arsenic what happens to the center-left space – who tin explicit it amended than the existing protagonists? Who will yet proceed with the enactment of a caller party, some from the close and leftist SYRIZA? Where are the centrists turning to successful an epoch of extremes.

And what astir the people’s distrust? Who attributes to it the value it has and however it affects the due functioning of democracy, trust successful institutions, and the progressive information of young radical successful politics? Is there an effort to regain mislaid credibility? Unless we judge that the measures (tax breaks and benefits) announced astatine TIF compensate for the widespread distrust. That is, if immoderate minimal, economical payment for households will besides support the government. If we judge that band-aids tin heal large wounds.

The reply is “No” and this 61% of those who said they are dissatisfied with authorities constitutes a first, resounding warning. Distrust does not subside with handouts whenever and nevertheless they are made – earlier oregon aft the elections. Society’s numbness does not translate into stability. The information that the absorption lags down does not shield the government. The lack of different λύση does not forge the content that the status quo is the lone solution.

Sixty-one percent of those asked successful polls state their disdain for the governmental system. The announced handouts whitethorn really intensify this feeling alternatively of diminishing it, due to the fact that they are besides a declaration of the government’s inability to marque substantial reforms. The benignant that springiness citizens and the state anticipation for the future.