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Trying to justify, from the parliament stage, the country's prime minister, the inconsistency between pre-election commitments and government practice, he made the following statement: "You can accuse us of delusions, not that we lied." His main concern was to convince citizens that they should not be accused of being insincere but of being delusional. According to psychiatry, delusion, as a process or fact, consists of deceiving ourselves into accepting as true or valid something that is false or invalid. In short, delusion is the way in which we justify our false beliefs to ourselves. The collective delusion of his party, which the prime minister invoked, will not be approached in its literal sense, that is, as a mental illness, but in its political dimension.
The leader of the ruling party therefore decides that the inability to understand and act in political affairs on the basis of objective rather than hypothetical or subjective assessments and desires of each person is not socially reprehensible. According to his reasoning, the admission of an incorrect perception of reality constitutes a sufficient justification towards society and is likely to be considered an advantage in his political sphere. Undoubtedly, the statement contains personal and collective experiential characteristics that concern his political sphere in general. 
The post-democratic left marched for 40 years amidst vital lies (Ipsenian term) from which not even the collapse of existing socialism, in the early 90s, differentiated, in essence, its basic interpretative assumptions about historical events and the laws of its ideological beliefs. The privileged position that the left held, during the post-democratic period, in certain areas of our collective life, such as art and education and the distance from political power, gradually created a latent approach to reality.        
The objective purpose of the statement was for the Prime Minister to justify himself to the social body for not keeping his election declarations. He unwittingly confessed his personal and collective inability to understand, interpret and act in political events, domestic and international, on existing and not desired situations. It is clear that after the questioning of the moral advantage of the left, due to its friction with power, the suffering of its interpretative importance and precision is also passing its so-called ideological "robustness".
To the extent that the prime minister and his party are not lying but have been deceived, he must inform us how his specific delusions arose and how he believes he will overcome them, so that they do not recur? Ultimately, how much wiser they have become and to what extent they consider that at least some of the dominant aspects of their political formation need to be revised. The other pole of the coalition government is in a similar situation, for other but related reasons. Of course, for a large part of the government officials, the mental processes of rationalization have already been activated, as a means of self-assurance of the "ego", so that they feel that their actions are in line with their beliefs.