The last thing the country and its burdened citizens needs is a yet another political mudslinging match, like the one we have been watching for the past few days. Enough with the hits below the waist, the generalizations, the vague accusations and the opponent elimination tactics. It is a shame for the judicial having to intervene in our political system in order to make sense, if it can of course, of the accusations that are so easily made from television panels or the stand in Parliament.
It is political unacceptable and subversive for the prestige and credibility of the political system as a whole to witness personal attacks with innuendos and vague accusations, instead of a civilized debate with opinions and arguments. All this poisoned political atmosphere achieves – in case the protagonists are not aware of it – is to further fuel the political disdain and to encourage the more extreme saboteurs of democratic normality.
It is tragic and absurd at the same time for the election of the President, a symbol of the country’s unity, to turn into an extreme and divisive conflict. It is indicative of political immaturity for the desirable pursuit for power to lead to a complete and total surrender to populism, in an effort to undermine political opponents by adopting conspiracy theory discourse.
They must finally understand that in a mudslinging match nobody comes out a winner. In the end of the day, victims and victimizers alike, receive the same disdain and suffer the consequences of the mud. Unfortunately the country and the people are the biggest losers, as they realize that the political leaders do not live up to expectations.
TO VIMA
