By Olga and Tanya Yeritsidou
A well-known saying has it that the best lies are served wrapped up in truth. Thus, the best con jobs are covered by several events that are true but which do not change the fact that the target, that is, the victim of this con job, is duped and finds him or herself at the mercy of the con artists. However, it will be increasingly difficult for the victim to see through the scheme because he / she will be blinded by its superficial truths, and as a result, the victim will want to partake in this con job and allow the racketeers to profit at his expense. This is what is happening in these elections: this is one of the best-organised con jobs of the oligarchy cronies against every Democratic-minded Citizen.
However we try to view the process of these elections under a scientific and analytic lens, we will but see this con job clearly and the abolition of all democratic principles it brings. This electoral process is full of the impasses that everyone reverberates that a Democracy lacks: the choice is particularly limited, the process particularly porous and partial and its public monitoring and control simply non-existent.
More specifically, we argue that the choice is particularly limited because one does not have the chance to choose the persons one really wants to see in government, unless these persons have been nominated by the parties themselves. You cannot even choose the persons you want if those persons happen to be in different parties. Nor can you nominate persons that will not be approved by a party, especially if we are talking about governmental posts: an independent, party-free and promising person will never get to become a prime-minister, even in the case he / she is elected to Parliament as an independent deputy (an extremely unlikely possibility as the average Citizen is scared of casting his vote for a person who will get lost amongst the 300 of the Parliament, rather than belonging to a party of some political power), because prime-ministers and governments are formed exclusively by parties. Most importantly, during the electoral process you do not have the capacity to vote against all of them. You are forced to choose one. But this restriction of a negative vote against all is one of the most serious anti-democratic measures that can be imposed on a Democrat because it blocks the true Popular ruling and ʽpoliticalʼ punishment of wrongdoing politicians as well as the cleansing of all miasma from the political scene who will remain in power till death does them apart and spawn in the meantime new descendants to follow their in their steps.
Apart from this huge deficit in Democracy, we have to deal with the institutionalised ballot rigging which is equivalent to the so-called polity inertia that is described in the Penal Code in articles regarding crimes against the Regime (that is, treason). In other words, every electoral law issued after the post-war era to this day has been blatantly electorally fraudulent of the Popular Mandate. We have historically seen everything as the Greek People: we have seen the first party gaining the majority of votes only for the second party to come to power; we have seen the number of deputies elected from small constituencies to be the same for deputies running in constituencies three times as large; we have seen first parties lacking deputies but be given the biggest bonus of seats to balance out the chronic disapproval of the electoral body, to such a degree that nowadays, the first party will be strengthened with a bonus of 50 extra seats, adding fifty deputies to a minority party. Thus, the electoral strength of a second powerful party is added to the first party, a strength which has not been given by the electoral body. If we could estimate what percentage of parliamentary power is given this way to the first party, we would also be able to estimate the percentage of the institutionalised rigging of the ballot.
Apart from all the above that reduce the whole electoral process to a feast and funfare for the government cronies to fool the electorates, including the Greek one in this case, we should add the manual ballot rigging: this ranges from ʽcookingʼ the electoral lists including or excluding whole age groups of potential voters. In these elections about two-hundred thousand young voters as well as an unknown number of diaspora Greeks who still enjoy political rights, as well as those who have recently migrated will be excluded from voting, while at the same time, there are countless possibilities for double entries as well as people under medical or psychiatric treatment (who are legally unable to exercise their right to vote), and ʽirregularitiesʼ of the type of ʽmisplacedʼ or ʽlostʼ sealed electoral bags.
On top of all that, there is complete opaqueness during all stages of the electoral process after the first count that involves Citizens directly, as the results are fed to Singular, a private company working for profit and which controls the whole process that will eventually release the results of the Popular Mandate. This company functions under the control of no one who is not already a suspect or member of the criminal rig against the People and its property under the cover the complicity of the governmental power. It is particularly easy for those who adulterated the data issued by ELSTAT to adulterate whatever else it is needed for the ʽdesiredʼ result since no outsider can possibly check their work.
In addition to all the above, we are also plagued by the problems accruing from the censuses, which are themselves the laughing stock of the scientific community in terms of design, organisation and execution. But even those deficient ones are being used wrongly, in fact blatantly wrongly. Thus, we end up with the hilarious result (if it were not so absolutely tragic for the Greek People) that the total number of the registered voters in the electoral rolls exceeds the total number of the Greek population to such a degree, that Greece appears not to have a single adolescent under 18, nor a single baby amongst the general population, or something is very wrongly calculated on purpose in those electoral rolls by including people that should not have been there for any reason, mainly because they are not Greeks and have not the same motives nor face the same risks as the Greek People, if not having diametrically opposed interests.
In the middle of all this charade we of course find the judicial authority which offers a legal cover to all this fraud, legalises it, accepts it and condones it. How else could the cronies possibly bend the rules of the democratic process (the popular electoral process) so as to become the incubator and the preserve of the oligarchic class of power, if they could not puppet-play the justice officials and exploit the authority for their benefit, turning it from the salt of the political and social life to the main stinking cesspool of decay that poisons us all?
But despite all the above, we the Yeritsidou, prompted the people to vote in these elections.
But why did we do that, given the unacceptable state of things we just described?
Because in this nefarious system one has two roads to follow: you either rip it apart by violence and establish the new one (the best option in our opinion to establish Direct Democracy and Athropocentrism as we shall analyse in the near future) or you boycott and undermine it, by denying it excuses it has learned to deal with).
The system has already learned how to deal with abstention from the vote and hide it just as it hides the real Mandate of the electoral body. In particular, it has started teaching the Citizens to concern themselves with the few (the minority) who vote, and to ignore the many who abstain, getting us used even more to the regime of the de facto Oligarchy, whereby we willingly surrender every right we possess, even in theory. We therefore should go and vote for the simple reason that we should possess the receipt of our having done so (it is necessary that you demand it after your vote) because this little paper will secure ʽour legal rightʼ. We need this proof of our legal right so that we can initiate the steps that the system has not yet learned how to deal with, up until the time when we will together rip it apart once and for all.
The first of our steps should be to question the transparency and validity of the electoral process, and ask for an audit. We, the Yeritsidou are about to register the pertinent request and we urge every compatriot to do the same, so that we will be eventually able to proceed to the first mass appeal for an audit of all those processes in History, and start taking control of Power as a Greek People in our hands, and by means of this pressurising, to halt the cronies from continuing their destructive acts and force each one that sits in the prime-ministerʼs seat to reaffirm that he still enjoys the peopleʼs approval.
Translation courtesy of Michael T.