Dissolving Parliament when it is politically convenient

In contrast to other important plenary debates, Wednesday's discussion for the revision of the Constitution in Parliament maintained a certain decorum. Lawmakers kept their speeches low-key and the confrontation was relatively mild. 

I will not focus on the legal aspects of the revision - which are better left to experts on constitutional law - on whether and to what degree the articles proposed should change, but on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's choice to defend his decision to topple the conservative government of Antonis Samaras four years ago, exploiting certain constitutional provisions for presidential elections.

Making this statement now after he and his party had decided that this law is wrong and should change, can only be described as a theater of the absurd.

One would have expected him to either avoid citing that unfortunate decision, or to recognize...

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