The paradoxes of the ballot box

The first question after this year's elections is where did Zoe Konstantopoulou, leader of Plefsi Eleftherias, or Course of Freedom, find the extra 90,000 votes in the May general elections? In the previous elections in 2019, 82,786 voters (1.47%) chose Course of Freedom; in May this year it jumped to 170,424 votes (2.89%); and in June it got 165,210 (3.17%). Neither she nor her party has done anything of note to warrant a more than doubling of her supporters, unless the country suddenly has many feminists who appreciated her attempt to be included in the televised debate of political leaders "as the only woman leading a party," as she noted at the time. Fortunately, the bipartisan committee discussing the rules of the debate didn't budge and there was no whining by shallow rights defenders about the all-male panel.

Yet the question remains, what happened between 2019 and...