Editorial: The dilemma of the elections

This year European Parliament and local elections are neither simple nor commonplace.

Their crucial nature is patently obvious. They are considered and indeed are a dress rehearsal for the upcoming parliamentary election, which has not yet been called.

After ten years of economic crisis Greece is at a critical crossroads, and citizens must choose the country's path. They must decide whether it will remain in a cycle of introversion and misery or whether it will attempt to make progress and bring dynamic economic growth.

Voters must decide if they will settle for petty, piecemeal responses to problems and arrangements or whether they will spread their wings and seize the opportunity that lies before them.

Essentially, one is dealing with two separate schools of political thought and practice.

Over the past years the government has adopted a dual or bipolar approach.

At first it attacked Greece's partners and creditors due to the self-confessed self deception and illusions of the PM.
It did not recognise either the bankruptcy that had come and its awful repercussions or the burden it had to shoulder as the responsible government.

Consequently, it reached a total impasse which led to a one-sided and entirely problematic compromise.
Without any negotiation it capitulated and accepted the difficult aim of stabilisation which it then served like latter day Janissaries, imposing upon Greek society many more restrictive measures than necessity and circumstances required.

According to one account the government opted for harsh austerity and over-taxation so as to ensure that it would meet the demands of partners and creditors and create a reserve of pre-electoral funding that it would give citizens at the end of its...