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Survey: 60.7% Greeks Want Elections by 19. Feb 2012
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics
It is just one month after the coalition government of ex-banker Premier Lucas Papademos came into power and Greeks are already fed up. According to a public survey conducted by MRB, 55.1% say that the image of Papademos’ government is ‘bad’ , while 60.7% of Greek citizens want parliamentary elections on February 19th 2012 the latest. The bipartisan caretaker-government of Socialist PASOK, conservative Nea Dimokratia and far-right LAOS came into power under Lucas Papademos in November under the condition that elections would be held on 19. Febr 2012. In recent days the non-elected PM implied that he would stay in power until the work of this government is over and that he “could even proceed to a government reshuffle”, so his spokesman, according to Greek media.
However the majority of Greeks sees no great difference in comparison to the former PASOK government and want an elections solution as soon as possible.
34% said they wanted elections on 19 Feb 2012, 26.7% elections ‘as soon as possible’, 20.4% ’elections until next summer’ and only 11.8% wanted elections at the end of the four-year perio, that is in 2013.
55.1% said that the image of Papademos’ government is “bad”.
Should parliamentary elections take place next Sunday, citizens answered they would vote for Nea Dimokratia at 26%, PASOK 15.1%, Communist Party (KKE) 11.6%, left-wing SYRIZA 7.4%, LAOS 6.2%, left-wing Democratic LEft 4%, Eco-Greens 4%. The rest of the political parties would get less than the 3% threshold andtherefore they would hardly achieve to enter the Parliament.
11.8% favored to cast a ‘blank’ vote, while a full 18% did not not say what they would vote.
55.1% said “Papademos’ gov was worse than they had expected” and 24.5% said it was as “good” as they had expected.
48% of the citizens rate PM Papademos “negative” and 33.3% “possitive”.
The MRB’s survey shows 6-months trends and it was conducted until 8. Dec 2011 among 2,000 people across the country.
Source: Proto Thema
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Some may not like to hear this, but you have to take your medicine sometimes even when it doesn’t taste good.
So, Papademos should insist on no elections until all the austerity measures are completed, (i.e., removal of public employees not needed etc, privitization etc)..
Because, unfortuantely, if Papademos doesn’t, then the new government won’t do anything as always out of fear of not getting re-elected.
Now, is the perfect opportunity for Greece to get better by having the strong arm of Papademos ensure Greeks take their medicine and Papademos has no agenda since he won’t be re-elected and as such is the most impartial Greek government we’ve had in almost 35 years.
I forgot to add. One more move that would make more sense is to sack the curent ministers and bring in ministers like Papademos with no political affiliation to the old parties. That way they could do the measures needed without being hindered by the same old Necrotic, nepotistic ways.