The break is over, everyone back to work

A few days remain until the end of the most tiring pre-election period in recent decades, where the main role in the political debate was not played by the programs of the parties but by some statements made by members of New Democracy and SYRIZA. This is characteristic of the mutation that political dialogue has undergone in Greece under the influence of social media on the daily political agenda.

Suddenly, a statement by Spyros Pnevmatikos, a prominent doctor and lawmaker with the conservatives, was interpreted by the conspiracy theorists of the keyboard as an intention of a new government under Kyriakos Mitsotakis to let end-of-life phase cancer patients die without treatment and drugs - all for financial reasons. In fact, this chilling, obviously fake, interpretation was even adopted by SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras in his speeches and used as a bogeyman for those who are...