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THE SANCTIONS THAT advertised were worthy of the blame apathy of the Golden Dawn director. Democracy does not take revenge. Although he is not a fool. Punish fairly. And he did. He won and celebrates.
And yet, in celebration of victory, it only took the “Kontoni episode”, with its complaints that the Chrysaugites “will fall into softness”, with alleged SYRIZA responsibilities, to initiate the well-known kicks. The government took the opportunity to remind us of the theory of the two extremes in all its variants: from the most vile and smelly to the most scientific and digestible. And indeed through the mouth of a government representative …
So instead of the conservative faction seizing the unique historical opportunity provided by the court ruling to evaporate what Evangelos Averoff once called “far-right drops”, instead of sending a message of democratic austerity to the arms of the deep state that Golden Dawn has ensured for years, in a micropolitical crescendo, found the culprit: SYRIZA. Now, ND doesn’t even take care of Golden Dawn. You are dealing with SYRIZA again.
This is politically infamous, but not historically unprecedented: sometimes the right is in a quandary and often compromises between the “threat from the left” and the “extreme right”. Recent European political history offers many such examples. If K. Mitsotakis wants that right to exhaust his political opponent, he will swallow it raw.
In the unique historical moment in which we live, the image of a miserable political world arises that is not capable of realizing the importance of criminal conviction, after 40 years of impunity. A democracy without the basic trust to prioritize the greater over the less …
The extreme right, after the strong blow it receives with the judicial decision, takes a breath of moral rebirth through its reflection on the left, carried out by the ND. No one won by relativizing the abominations of fascism, except fascism itself. Appeasement of the far right is historic suicide, although in the short term it may help the unity of the conservative faction. As naive as it may seem to us on a regular basis today, it makes sense to remind ourselves.
Well, we know that the anti-fascist struggle is not the political burden of the right wing, but on the other hand, the conservative political legacy includes both Churchill’s vision and de Gaulle’s national anti-Nazism. This is not true;
Then, the day after the verdict, that trial instead of leaving a group “now reaches” prosecutors like the one at headquarters, who saw nothing criminal in the structure of Golden Dawn, police who collaborated with the criminal organization. , to metropolitans and priests who performed Holy Communion at the inauguration of their offices, we see the return to the classical misery of the Greek political staff.
A few days before the trial, the voice of society was heard shouting at the goldsmiths that “they are not innocent”. And the day before yesterday, Sunday, Avgi rushes in with a cover for the last two prime ministers on the right that they are “not innocent.” Really, is this the left’s response to the two-member campaign?
The relativization of the differences between the right and the extreme right has the same morbid effect: the moral resurgence of the latter. The government’s plan and all its allied interests set for the political discredit of the left is treated differently. Such headlines reinforce it. Nobody wins by praising a small part of their voters … Anti-fascism is the pre-existing struggle of the left. Always it was. It’s a shame to crush it with cheap and shortsighted tactics. And ultimately, Samaras is a far right. He is not a fascist. Mitsotakis is nothing of the sort.
The wick were the words of one or two former SYRIZA justice ministers who were quick to agree that the Golden Dawn due to the new Penal Code “will fall on the soft side.” The reaction of the opposition, initially indulgently clumsy and unjustifiably phobic: something half-hearted like “the Penal Code was drawn up by a drafting committee of experienced lawyers,” as if the people in the elections voted for drafting committees and not by a government …
The new Penal Code has more favorable provisions for the guilty. That’s right. This is liberal criminal law, not draconian laws that allow prosecutors to split for life left and right, filling Greek prisons with hell.
And since we are also talking about the deprivation of civil rights, it goes without saying that the new regulation is much better than the old one. In a country where, until 1998, just twenty years ago, the state eliminated citizenships through summary administrative procedures, it is much fairer to eliminate civil rights to electoral law rather than criminal or administrative ones. Ultimately, the new criminal law also provides for the possibility of deprivation of public office if the judge deems it appropriate.
So instead of the official opposition defending the government project for which it has reason to be satisfied, it rushes to introduce amendments that expose it, justifying the malicious criticism that exists. Because, when the opponent says you “threw the Golden Dawn gently” and you run to file an amendment, it’s like rushing to tell him he’s right. And yet ND has no rights. The fact that there is no special provision for criminal parties-organizations in the country’s electoral legislation weighs it equally.
Thus, in the unique historical moment in which we live, the image of a miserable political world arises that is not capable of realizing the importance of criminal conviction, after 40 years of impunity. A democracy without the elemental trust to prioritize the greater over the less … Separate political responsibility from criminal guilt and shout “so far” at the Nazis, without unknown compensations and stupid asterisks.
The historic conviction of Golden Dawn, a criminal organization disguised as a political party, brought Greece to the forefront of international news for a reason that makes Greek Democrats proud.
Sometimes History twists and crushes resistance like parasites. Not only. History does not do anything by itself. People do. Judges and not judges. No fight is lost. So this time the story took a good turn. The one that every democrat in the world expects for his place and not only. With this decision, Greece went ahead. Even belatedly, he showed fidelity to the encounter with the good side of history, recalling the bright pages of his anti-fascist past.
It is a pity, then, that the impulse of the decision to withhold less than it deserves for cheap conveniences of the Greek political personnel seems unworthy of the grandeur, but also the criticality of the situation. The next day is here.
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