Editorial: Take your life in your hands!

By all accounts, next Sunday's general election is crucial and decisive as regards the course and future of the country.
It concerns the path that Greece will take, the plan that citizens will choose, the priorities that the electorate will set, and the measures and policies that will definitively lead the economy out of the crisis or keep it in a state of stagnant bankruptcy and low expectations.

Essentially, in this general election one sees a confrontation between two schools of thought.

The first school, expressed by the prime minister, sees things evolving in a linear fashion, protectively, almost conservatively, without flare-ups, with the supposed certainties of "sure and secure steps".

The second school, expressed and passionately defended by the main opposition leader, involves great reforms and great expectations.

The government's take on events is based on the record of the last four years - which were obviously not the best and were clearly lacking in results - and on the wear of governance which resulted from disappointments, unfulfilled promises, and successive shifts and turns.

The government's view is lacking in credibility, especially if one takes into account the delusions and self-deceptions that characterised its term in office and the accumulated burdens created by its obvious mistakes.

That is all the more true if one takes into account its methods and practices and the manner in which it harmed democratic institutions.

The government no longer inspires or moves people.

Though in some groups it may instill a sense of relative security, it is unable to offer a regenerative vision or raise expectations.

On the contrary, in the general population it stirs uncertainty and insecurity and...

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