Seasonal rhetoric or a reform milestone?

"Society is clearly expecting something different right now from politics and politicians to what it possibly expected some time ago," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said recently. "We all need to rediscover our role, speaking of the opposition but also the government leading the country. By virtue of its position, its institutional position, it does not need the confrontation with parties struggling to survive by having their political say. It can convey a different point of view, one that is more generous and insightful," former deputy prime minister Evangelos Venizelos said in a recent interview, arguing that he regards the discourse between political parties right now as somewhat "old-school."

"The old ideological lines are fading. There is no Left or Right anymore, just forward or backward," the prime minister also said.

What is this "something different"...

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