Afroditi Latinopoulou appears to be at a difficult crossroads as polls show her party hovering around 3%. This percentage could be considered satisfactory for a party built around a single personality. However, things aren’t exactly that simple. In the upcoming elections, if Afroditi Latinopoulou manages to enter Parliament in the first ballot, she would then have to resign from the European Parliament to be sworn in. But if Voice of Reason fails to enter Parliament in the second electoral contest, then Afroditi Latinopoulou would lose everything – both Parliament and the European Parliament.
Based on these circumstances, many wonder who the Voice of Reason leader could collaborate with to enter Parliament. Among the parties currently in Parliament that are ideologically to the right of New Democracy, collaboration with Kyriakos Velopoulos is impossible as these two parties are considered competitors. Moreover, Afroditi Latinopoulou hasn’t hidden her antipathy toward the Greek Solution president. “When someone sells handwritten letters from Jesus and miraculous ointments for every disease, what is that? Isn’t that charlatan behavior? It was his choice to do it,” she had characteristically stated.
Afroditi Latinopoulou could collaborate with Victory, although it’s unknown whether Dimitris Natsios will manage to enter Parliament given that Maria Karystianou appears to be draining his party’s support. So Afroditi Latinopoulou has two options: either collaborate with New Democracy if and when Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s party approaches her, or with Maria Karystianou’s party or Antonis Samaras’s party if the latter decides to proceed with creating a new political formation.
Afroditi Latinopoulou “could easily collaborate” with Antonis Samaras
Many argue that Afroditi Latinopoulou could easily collaborate with Antonis Samaras, since the former prime minister also needs additional support to achieve a respectable showing for a potential new party. Furthermore, sources indicate that Antonis Samaras had offered her a proposal to join his party, but she had declined.
As for Maria Karystianou, the problems here are different. While they may be ideologically close, the question is which of the two could take on party leadership. The collaboration seems somewhat difficult, but no one knows for sure. However, she appears particularly careful when speaking about Maria Karystianou. Of course, there’s always the possibility that Afroditi Latinopoulou, despite her criticism of the government, might turn toward the ruling party as a critical ally, though in that case she would appear particularly inconsistent to her voters.
In all her interviews, she appears negative about collaborations, presumably because she has learned how the political game is played. When asked about the possibility of collaboration with Antonis Samaras’s potential new party, Afroditi Latinopoulou was categorical. She emphasized that it constitutes a personal choice and democratic right of the former prime minister to proceed with any political move he desires, including founding a new political formation. However, she assured that her commitments and promises to voters remain unchanged. Voice of Reason, according to Afroditi Latinopoulou, has charted an autonomous course with new faces, aiming for entry into the Greek Parliament.
