TOXIC POLITICAL CLIMATE

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Editorial To Vima: The wrong road leads downhill

If the wrong road leads to disputing a defeat and, even worse, of the electoral outcome, then the downhill slide will be much more dangerous.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Limits

For the sake of our common future, candidates must not cross the thin, red line that separates a legitimate clash of views and policies from the cesspool of extreme polarisation.

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Editorial Ta Nea: A toxic political environment

In a host of television talk show panels, political opponents engage in something akin to a rooster fight, usually over issues that are not among citizens’ top concerns.

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Editorial To Vima: A toxic clash

Everyone would expect MPs, who constitutionally represent the nation, to discuss national security with lucidity, knowledge, and calmness, and not shrieks, innuendo, and gesticulation.