After the first barrage of goebbellist governmental propaganda, the various
‘interpretations’ of and ‘readings’ into the first round of elections by more or
less sincere professional ‘specialists’ in the main television channels, in
particular of the various messages the People attempted to send out, it is time
we seriously examined not the interpretations but THE SIMPLE FACTS AND THE
IMMEDIATE RESULTING CONCLUSIONS DEVOID OF INTERPRETATIONS, in this present
discussion on the basis of common sense only.
REGARDING THE ELECTORAL JUGGLERY: In a rather recent previous article of mine,
we discussed about the jugglery involving election results and the reliability
of releases of national data sources (such as the Ministry of Interior, and the
national Statistical Service). The reliability and validity of the data flows
from such sources have directly been questioned by the government itself, indeed
labelled as the triggering of the maelstrom which has brought us all under
economic occupation and loss of our sovereign power to third parties. In
that article we said that since economic data, destined to be surveyed and
examined by international auditors are openly been adulterated and twisted (we
shall not at present discuss the nature and purpose of these international
auditors) by the governmental gangs each and every time to effectuate
self-accruing profits, it is absurd to hypothesize that the same centers will
not resort to tempering and adulterating the required data so as to legitimize
or preclude access to power of certain politicians.
Thus, we should keep in mind that the jugglery involved in the electoral results
geared to twist the intended message of the People is a fact.
The manners in which this jugglery takes place are many: aliens with the right
to vote, double entries, citizens stating EU as their place of domicile,
citizens of foreign lands having interests different from those of the Greeks,
naturalized foreigners directly linked to party and government centres, are just
few of the sources of jugglery of the Will of the Greeks, even before counting
the votes in the ballots. It is also possible to add a couple of zeroes during
counting of votes (30 votes can easily become 300 or even 3,000) as eye
witnesses have many times attested to, off the record of course, till now,
‘processing’ of percentages, votes by the dead and buried, are usual sources of
jugglery at the next level. Finally, the level of secondary processing and
handling of incoming raw data bears witness to faking of percentages whereby a
deviation even by 10% cannot easily be checked or disputed by any Citizen, even
if these Citizens have full cognizance of such context.
I will not endeavour into tricks of methodological nature linked to the actual
analysis of data, since every social researcher knows how to use statistics to
boost the preferred interpretation of what the data show, via directing
respondents’ answers and votes (as was very actively attempted during the recent
pre-election period whereby the wrong comparison was made, i.e., results were
compared to the wrong election, so as to extract the wrong conclusion, something
that works totally in favour of the government). Our purpose in the present
article is to simply remind ourselves that we should expect a de facto
adulteration of electoral results until the Democratic means of gauging People’s
Will comes to bear fruit.
REGARDING ABSTENTION FROM VOTING: Abstention, as has correctly been pointed out
by other analysts, should in NO WAY be interpreted as indulgence and sanctioning
by the People. At best, a sign of indulgence can only be assigned to the white
vote, because only the white vote send the message ‘I will follow whatever the
majority chooses’ (i.e., acceptance of whatever political platform or tolerance
of such platform). Hence, it constitutes a grave methodological error, but
useful communicative and propagandistic trickery, to aggregate white votes along
with the cancelled votes, since the white vote means acceptance of the choice of
majority while the cancelled vote means total rejection of every suggested
platform.
If we were dealing with an average governor (I consciously refrain from using
the terms ‘prime-minister’ or ‘leader’ because these terms belong to people who
rose to power on a clear mandate in the first place and not on a fake legitimacy
depending on the political regime in the case of every People and who are
personalities that do not double-talk or enjoy such lack of dignity evidently
associated with George A. Papandreou, and very unfortunately so), the size of
abstention would be interpreted as a motion of impeachment against the
government by the People, and so general elections should have already been
proclaimed. Even more so after the choice that he himself set forth (either you
support this government in the municipal elections or the country will go to
general elections) and the size of the threat hanging over the heads of all
Citizens (destabilizing the country, default and such like terror scenarios) so
that Citizens are FORCED to come forth and vote and discourage ABSTENTION (there
is a multitude of video clips on which GAP makes such calls). The mere size of
abstention regardless of any percentage of votes gained by the parties, should
have prompted him to declare either general elections or a Plebiscite vote of
confidence (a true and real one rather than a quasi one).
It is also wrong to believe that the ‘criterion’ of proclaimed success at these
elections was pre-electorally opaque since he himself and his gang had
repeatedly insisted that a sign of satisfactory ‘confirmation’ of the mandate of
the electoral body would be received if their percentage difference from the
opposition party reached 5 percentage points as against the 10 percentage points
registered during the last National elections and won at least 8 (out of the
initial 11) green prefectures during the first round.
Not only did GAP not meet his own-imposed electoral criteria but he literally
plummeted to the bottom and found himself struggling for prevalence at the
second round against the opposition parties despite the de facto adulteration of
electoral results.
Performing therefore a ridiculous political cart-wheel, mocking all of us (since
he obviously considers us as both lacking in mind and memory and incapable of
making a simple comparison of pre-election machismo and ‘blackmailing’ and his
ludicrous and pathetic interpretation of the results of his utter electoral
failure) desperately hanging and clinging on to power, governor Papandreou told
us that he does not intend to leave us alone and risk touching bottom in
National elections, having a worse fate than his predecessor, governor
Karamanlis.
Of course, very diligently and obediently, the mass media at his beck-and call,
part of the propagandist governmental information net, were quick to point to
the ‘percentages that elevated PASOK to the first place’, without however
commenting on the fact that no government can possibly be formed based on just
the 12-20% of electoral vote (with that gained out of huge juggling worse than
this of the notorious 60s) and which UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ENJOYING PRINCIPAL
POPULAR MAJORITY REPRESENTATION IN THE ELECTORAL BODY BASED ON SUCH MEAGRE
PERCENTAGES.
It is clear that without Principal Popular Majority Representation, something
that had already been cast under doubt even before last Sunday, GAP cannot form
a government unless he resorts to becoming a minority government whereby his
parliamentary support will depend on third parties. EVEN THAT SOLUTION WOULD BE
EXTREMELY SHORT-LIVED BECAUSE SUCH A MOVE WOULD AMOUNT TO A FORCED GOVERNMENT
RATHER THAN TO A GOVERNMENT ENJOYING FULL POPULAR SUPPORT.
Given therefore all the above, what do we do as Citizens, this coming Sunday’s
second round?
As already told, we are unfortunately dealing with indecent and dishonest
governors who hide behind the structural inadequacies (so well cultivated and
prepared by their own relatives and predecessors to power-holding) of our Regime
that preclude immediate Popular intervention and fall of government whether they
in power wish it or not. This is the fact: If GAP wishes to remain in power
regardless of all reaction, there is, at this moment and time, no
institutionalized way or non-corrupt power centre that will make him leave. The
evident collusion of the Opposition in not demanding elections and shying away
from actually doing the right thing and denounce all institutionalized
illegalities of this ‘government’ is proof of the above truth.
As a People, at this moment and time, we are faced with very few options, but
our choices are not without power and unavoidable influence.
Before the first round of elections I had called your attention to the fact that
abstention under the present situation would not be the right choice, and had
suggested to you to participate in these elections casting CANCELLED votes, on
the basis of a simple and logical strategy.
Results have proven me right, because if the 40-50% of abstained voters had
instead been 40-50% of cancelled votes, the following would have happened:
1. ‘Percentages’ that look as ‘double-digits’ would immediately be cut in half,
and as a result not a single prefecture would be green today.
2. They would be forced to ‘interpret’ the cancelled votes rather than the
abstention.
I had already suggested to all those wishing to cast a valid vote, to vote for
the Communist Party only because that vote would count as a counter weight to
the extreme rightist policy followed by PASOK. Jugglery does not allow us to be
certain about the real percentages of the Communist Party (though the delirium
characterizing representatives of LAOS (Popular Orthodox Alert), shows that the
Communist Party must have appeared to them as a real threat, in fact, as a
threat of its becoming the first party).
The reason why I had not suggested casting valid votes was precisely because of
the issue of jugglery and fixing vote percentages by tempering with the
electoral laws, and also because the Communist Party itself and based on its
actions during the post-junta period, has never offered any guarantees that its
real interest lies with the protection of the People.
So, here is the political situation we find ourselves in: the first round has
not secured Popular Majority Support to PASOK or given such mandate to any other
party. Abstention from voting underscored the general rejection of the political
scenery and fostered a demand for its change.
WE SHOULD DO ANYTHING IN OUR POWER AS A PEOPLE TO MAINTAIN THAT STANCE AND MAKE
IT EVEN STRONGER.
Jugglery of the electoral results happens one way or the other and it is not
something that we can directly check, unless we openly challenge the truth of
the results.
But we can really make it VERY DIFFICULT FOR THEM to suggest any
‘interpretation’ that could actually stand more than a couple of days, just as
the ‘victory’ of PASOK has subsequently been described as a serious rundown and
divestiture of party power and in a little while it will be for what it is :
defeat.
What we strategically as a People ought to do (with our main interest being our
own protection from the governmental assault, and siding with no party
whatsoever) is to come forth to the ballots, especially all those who abstained
during the first round and cast a CANCELLED vote, so that those who abstained
last Sunday would make it clear where they stand.
Under no circumstances must any green or greenish candidacy be supported.
In this way we would have made our political stance clear, WE WOULD NOT HAVE
GIVEN POPULAR MAJORITY SUPPORT TO NOBODY because nobody deserves it, we would
not have empowered anyone to continue enforcing something that everybody else
has admitted that it was not necessary to be enforced, and WE WOULD NOT HAVE
UNDERSIGNED THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR COUNTRY AND NATION.
Also, in the context of such ballot, every demonstration in the streets would
carry a totally different weight within and without the country.
These would constitute the first deafening steps towards reclaiming our true
Sovereignty as a People since the time it was snatched away from us and the
beginning of a process of bringing all of our losses back to us.
In every case they are trying to convince us that it is them who hold all the
cards, and by juggling in combination with propaganda, they will try to enforce
their will on us.
Let us not let them do this to us, and with our behaviour, given that it is the
first time they were forced to recognize our part in the political game, do not
let them take this recognition away from us bluffing their way through their
telling us ‘we now concentrate on just municipal issues’ or ‘the country will
default’ and such like empty and silly threats routinely nowadays used by
governor GAP to scare those he considers ignoramus and imbecilic natives.
We have historically ousted far superior players than the likes of him.