Two basic rules in parliamentary democracy: judges judge according to law and decide according to conscience – and laws must be general and in any case contain no personifications.
From this point of view, the legislative arrangement that led to the decision of the Supreme Court to expel the 12 deputies of the “Spartiates” party from the Parliament and the European elections, suffers – according to valid lawyers.
But that is a discussion that is not going to be opened at this time. However, the debate has opened on the expected decision of the Electoral Court, which will determine their replacement.
In addition to the judicial crisis, a political game is also hidden, with the government acting as a guard to falsify in its favor, the possibilities of the court verdict, which are specific, even though the usual – four – “official” constitutionalists who co-assist the government, have not still comment.
First, to repeat the elections throughout the country – as is constitutionally correct – but beyond the practical side, Kyriakos Mitsotakis is understandably not excited at this time.
Second – and in order more correct – that the Electoral Court allocate the 12 seats of the “Spartans” to the parties, with a new application of the existing electoral law.
ND will increase its parliamentary strength by 6 seats and you will reach 164, SYRIZA will get 3 and go to 50 – minus the 11 who left for the New Left – and from one seat PASOK, KKE will get and Freedom Sailing.
There is, of course, the “management” of the 243,922 votes of the “Spartans”. Will the court “disappear” them? Will he distribute them to the parties – in the parliamentary or non-parliamentary parties? Will he include the “Spartans” in the “Other parties”, which remain outside the Parliament?
In addition to the legal and political issues that will be raised, will there be a retrospective “quantification” of the results? Will there be changes in the calculations of the electoral measure per Region and the order of locally unused votes of each party and with what carambolas in the distribution?
The third version remains: the by-elections in the respective regions that lose a member of parliament. That is, in the 12 largest regions of the country, in which almost 2.5 million voters voted in June 2023, i.e. almost half of the active electorate.
With this development the Maximos palace is flirting. Calculating – based on his primacy in the polls – that the majority nature of the election by Region will provide him with all 12 seats.
He is betting – some say: “taking care” – that, despite the not-so-friendly atmosphere surrounding the government at the moment, the democratic opposition parties will not unite on common candidates – according to the model of the second round of self-governing elections.
In the intra-governmental landscape, T. Livanios is considered the best candidate in the election. But in this case, the first word in the Maximos palace is given to the upgraded Makis Voridis, who from being Minister of State for Nothing, found himself virtually “Prime Minister instead of Prime Ministers”.
He is the initiator of the “straw man” amendments and the block of the incarcerated protopalika of the domestic Neo-Nazis. Which, I say in passing – leave open the possibility that there is again – undeclared this time – favor of Kasidiaris, in one of the parties of the European elections. Otherwise he would go down as a person himself: he has no electability problem and the single district favors him.
Voridis is a lawyer, former Minister of the Interior, now a powerful government official and comes from the Far Right. Understandably, managing the evolving – legal and cultural – “complexity” he caused as a legislator is now a test of his skills.
