Constructive opposition

International
The sacrifice of the town Greek insured
Constructive opposition
By: Carlos Damián June 17, 2012
The draconian cuts to the social well-being
México. - In the elections legislative carried out last Sunday (6/17/12) in Greece it was imposed as first minority (with almost 30% of the votes), the party traditional New Democracy (right-side), which leans to maintain the application of the draconian adjustment plans imposed by the European Union (EU) as condition so that that Mediterranean country preserves its ownership to the area Eurus. It is given by fact that the triumphant formation and the Socialist Party Pan-Hellenic (Pasok), also promoter of the austerity to fortiori, they will unite forces in the Parliament (128 seats of the first one and 33 of the second) to make be worth the agreement signed with the EU and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that specifies the adoption of new cuttings to the social expense and additional sacrifices for the population in general.

The figures of the elections represented a reason of relief, and until of joy, in the meeting of the Group of the 20, in Los Cabos, South Baja California. On the other hand for the European majorities, the impossibility of Syriza of obtaining an electoral advantage that allowed him to attempt the formation of a government constitutes a despair sign, since they lost the political possibility to reject the draconian plan of austerity prescribed by the EU for Greece. Additionally, the result leaves the new French president, François Hollande, being that it is the only European leader that has outlined the necessity to not only face the recession by means of cuttings to the social expense, but also by means of the reactivation of the market. The above-mentioned locates it in an isolation circumstance in the European context.

Greece in favor of the Eurus
A month marked by the uncertainty and for a plentiful voting one lived today in Greece, in those that some historical elections were considered it doesn't only for the Hellenic country, but for the rest of the eurozone. There were not serious disturbances except for the launching of a grenade that didn't explode against the Skai television radio station, in Athens, and the shots to the air that a youth carried out with a carbine in the island of Zakynthos. The closed elections lapsed in a centered peaceful way the world in the declarations: the right-side represented by New Democracy whose candidate, Antonis Samaras, is the winner, and the leftist Syriza, represented by Alexis Tsipras who pointed out, before being known the results that Greece “would defeat to the fear” and “it would be projected as an equitable partner in a Europe that is changing."

Alexis Tsipras hours later it congratulated Samaras for the victory. "It has obtained the possibility to form government and we will see it from the opposition. We won't accept measures of austerity; we will make a politics of opposition in a constructive way", he said. In one of the schools enabled as voting center, in the central neighborhood of Kukaki, Zisis Novis (ZN), of 56 year-old merchant and in favor of Syriza, it points out that these elections are a laboratory in which a town decides “if the neoliberal pattern continues or if in this country, the town gorged and therefore search another thing". Like it tells another person that was near Novis, “the reading it cannot be white and black, because although it wins New Democracy, the country it will have a representation of historical left-side in the Parliament, what puts in a situation of weakness to their conquering opponents."

On the other hand Yordani of 35 years old affirmed that these elections won't change anything in the country, as they want to show it the media. The things will follow equally one or with other". ZN explains that, indeed, no result will change one day for other the economic situation of Greece, but the left was the only one that could put a control to the measures of austerity imposed to leave the humanitarian crisis that one lives in the country". The euphoria of the Greek victory in the party of the Eurocup and the fires of the high temperatures cause in the forests they are the circumstances that surround the polemic elections.

With New Democracy, ZN insists, “the things will worsen. It will follow the politics of the medicine that kills the sick person: two thousand suicides in the two recent years, shortage of medications, a million 200 thousand unemployed, more and more Greek leaving the country in work search, while they are increased in an alarming way the aggressions to the migrants that arrive from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Iraq, among other countries, on the part of the Neo-Nazi right-side concentrated on the party Golden Dawn" that had an unexpected percentage of voting of 7 percent. The campaign of the fear had its effect, even in those that voted for Syriza, because before the threat that "little corral" would be imposed like in Argentina, many took out its money of the banks.

There are many opinions those that one could obtain “it is that there is a lot of waste for all the mobilizations of last year, so it won't be so easy to recapture them. In their biggest part, the politics-managerial class of the EU believes that the results electoral in the Hellenic nation constitutes a factor of economic and financial stability for the old continent. Little seems to care them that the measures of social devastation will end up generating, later that early, a severe political and social uncertainty in their continental environment of for yes inflammable. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 6 - 23, June 18, 2012).