To manage to get the full picture coming from the ballot, even
considering the de facto ballot-rigging that has taken place (for
starters, just consider the announced total number of Citizens
eligible to vote that comes close to 10,000,000 in a Country whose
total population is hardly 10,000,000!), we should first bypass the
electoral law which is by nature vote-mongering and rigged to secure
oligarchies in power, and focus instead on the real numbers.
Since it is not possible to check the reliability of the vote count by
Singular Logic, we shall have to make do with the real numbers this
company released. But it is still permissible, since we have no access
to these raw data, to calculate a 5% error margin, the consideration
of which is optional, but under the caveat that, based on the current
conditions and world pressures, there is little chance that this error
margin may be less and every chance that in reality it is higher to
the benefit of the vote percentages of all parties.
Still, even considering this conservative margin, election results are
dramatic and show not only the utter plunge of bipartisanship, as all
mass media are focusing on, BUT THE REJECTION OF THE SUM TOTAL OF ALL
PARTIES AND POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT. Even those parties that are
portrayed as the exceptions to the rule (SYRIZA, Independent Greeks,
Golden Dawn), are nothing else but a lame reading of people’s voting
behaviour which should have been at a completely different level had
these parties managed to truly attract the votes of even a section of
the Greek voters. Let me stress that these conclusions and those that
follow can be surmised by the information supplied by Singular Logic
itself, so we are unable to assess whether data entry has been
correctly carried out or whether vote boosting has been attempted for
particular parties who believe Greek common opinion endorses and
expects them to reach particular percentages.
In particular, the uncontested winner of the elections was the
ABSTENTION VOTE. This came to 35% of the electoral body (always in
accordance with Singular Logic data releases) which, if added to the
White or Null vote raises to 36.5%. If we also add 346,207 votes given
to small parties which were unable to reach the 3% threshold (the
so-called protest vote), we reach 40% of the electoral body. This is a
percentage supporting a party in power and carries the clearest
meaning that none of the aspiring petty kinglets running amidst
vote-rigged elections set up by an unconstitutional government can
convince that they are the bearers of any People’s mandate to form a
government.
It also constitutes proof that our so-called democracy is based by an
electoral law which produces and maintains oligarchies at the expense
of the rest of the minority parties, in fact annulling the political
preferences of Citizens/voters whose vote is improper for the support
of particular systemic minorities, instead of securing representation
of all existing minority parties.
Including in our calculation those parties that did not reach the 3%
threshold, the percentage of Citizens who are not represented in
Parliament and are thus silenced and in fact bereft of their right to
be represented in a so-called Democracy, reaches the unbelievable
48.5%.
That, is, half of the electoral body is not represented in Parliament
because they did not wish to vote in support of an oligarchic
Parliament but instead preferred pluralism (i.e., small parties) or a
veritable change to the existing political options (i.e., null, white
vote or abstention).
The above conclusions are reached on the basis of the totality of the
electoral body, because if we take into account the particular
tempering done by this particular electoral law which boosts all
percentages, we would reach a percentage of 60%.
But in statistics, when one wishes to understand the real picture, you
do not use a different yardstick in measuring particular behaviours
that seem supportive of your intended conclusions, but instead use the
same yardstick to assess the percentages representing all behaviours
so that the picture is unbiased. Otherwise, one lies with numbers.
To assess the true picture, using the same yardstick for all electoral
behaviour, that is, the real number that Singular Logic has released
as the electoral body base (i.e., 9,917,586 = 100%):
Voted: 65%
Abstention: 35%
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Total: 100%
DISTRIBUTION OF VOTE:
Abstention: 35%
White – Null vote: 1.5%
ND: 11,98%
SYRIZA: 10.65%
PASOK: 8.37%
Indep. Greeks: 6.7%
KKE: 5.38%
Golden D.: 4.43%
Dem.Left: 3.88%
Marginal parties: (LAOS, Ecologists, DeSy, etc): 8,5%
Other parties: 3,5%
In other words, at this time and moment only 12% of the votes perhaps
boosted at best by another 10% demand People’s mandate to govern
Greece.
In other words, they consider the minority vote represented by this
20% democratic, indeed carrying a blank cheque to arrange our lives at
will and doing so under full impunity and at our total expense.
So the message from these elections, beyond the total rejection of all
parties, since those who actually went to the ballot were only party
cronies later to be supported by ballot-rigging,, is that this
electoral law allowing for this rigging is completely
unconstitutional, and subversive of the Democratic Regime of Greece,
and thus, it should first be abolished at once as null, void and
catachrestic, and secondly the legal experts responsible for its
draw-up (Pavlopoulos and the rest in his team) as well as all those
who voted for such law in Parliament should be indicted.
Translation courtesy of Michael T.