In the recent Greek elections ND won by getting almost one third of the votes and almost half of the seats due to an irrational and unfair system that literally steals the seats from one party to give it to the first. Results also showed that Greece seems to be a polarized society and that the future belongs to Syriza. This is proved by the analysis of the vote of each party.
One third of ND’s voters were farmers, a social group that has not been affected largely by the Memorandum who are traditional voters. One fifth, 24,7% are women who do not work. PASOK voters consist of pensioners at 21%, 19,5% farmers and 16,8% housewives who do not work while only 13% of its voters come from the public sector. On the contrary, the most active lawyers of the society, the private employees, the freelancers, the public servants, the unemployed and students, voted for Syriza. 22,4% of the vote came from public servants, 22,1% from the unemployed and 19,7% from students.
On the side, Syriza captured the most educated sectors of society. 30% of ND’s voters have only finished the first grade (Dimotiko) and 17,5% have graduated from high school. The same thing is true about PASOK, 22% of its voters have only graduated from first grade while only 17% have graduated from high school. On the contrary, 19,2% of Syriza voters have a degree.
All these statistics show that ND and PASOK were mainly voted by farmers, pensioners and people who live in the rural areas. On the contrary, cities and younger people voted for Syriza. Does that mean that Greek society is polarized? Not at all. For the first time in the last 40 years, the supporters of the winning party did not go to the office headquarters to cheer. It was obvious that those who voted for ND and PASOK did it out of fear, not from hope. Fear was ND’s main campaign tactic– fear that if we say now we will be doomed forever. Propaganda was more effective on the gullible– the elderly, the less educated, those with restricted access to independent sources of information other than corporate media. That shows that this government will not be stable nor will prosper. It will have to take immediate actions against workers and public servants by cutting 12,5 billion euros in the one month period from June to July. This is almost 4,500 euro from every family. Wages in the private sector are set to fall further to 200-300 euros a month, with even less rights and benefits. This summer will be hot. ND won a battle but not the war against the people of Greece.
Source: (To Ethnos)
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