When the “reforms” and “modernization drive” of the New Democracy government are being criticized by figures within its own ranks, words are superfluous, PASOK notes in a statement.
As the Movement points out, “the former President of the Republic and longtime New Democracy minister, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, stated at a KEDE event that ‘electoral systems cannot be established that tend to secure for the government of the day a majority of municipalities or a majority of regions’ regarding the new electoral system proposed by the Ministry of the Interior.
He was also scathing about the Prime Minister’s “sincere” intentions regarding the upcoming constitutional revision.
“When you begin a revision in 2019 for the election of the President of the Republic and end up electing a President with a circumstantial, opportunistic, and single-party majority today, how can there be trust? “If someone were to cast 180 votes today, what would prevent the majority from doing the same thing it did last time?” asked Mr. Pavlopoulos, dismantling the entire government narrative.
The Mitsotakis government is reform-weary and responsible for the weakening of institutions. It squandered opportunities for the country, and the executive branch proved—as everyone admits—to be a directorate of excessive concentration of power.
Political change is a social necessity.”