Two-party system
Present circumstances – abroad as well as in Greece – militate against the participation of left-wing parties in the government. Being part of a globalizing world allows no room for other political recipes or experiments apart from the model which has been adopted and is served by the two large, traditional political groupings in the western world. The vast majority of people across the world have come to terms with this. The view has also been enhanced by the fact that the left, after its ideological and political decline over the last 15 years, is unable today to put forward some convincing alternative proposal, and has been confined to a sterile negativism. The same view seems to have gained ground among Greece’s citizens, as can be confirmed by the results of the last two elections where the two main parties received up to 87 percent of the vote, thus dashing any expectations of the smaller parties having a mediating role. Moreover, the fact that the electoral system – despite the fatigue and the disillusionment caused by the two major parties – produced an extremely unfavorable outcome for the minor parties clearly implies the unwillingness of the electoral body to undermine the two-party system…
