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The Tsipras family summer home in Sounio is obviously not THE big deal, amid a deadly pandemic and economic crisis the planet is experiencing.
We really have a thousand things to worry about. But it is an issue that cannot be ignored.
First of all, the way SYRIZA tried to bury the facts is indecent. And the way the Tsipras family responded to the revelations with intimidation and out of court turns out to be problematic. When you demand that Mitsotakis spank himself because he wasn’t wearing a mask on Parnitha, Zanet can’t come out vaguely threatening that “next time” they’ll clean us up because we’re commenting on the Legrain leg.
There is also an issue of freedom of the press, which SYRIZA systematically ignores. Much like a former prime minister you have the right, of course, to live luxuriously and to smoke cigars on yachts, as well as public opinion, through the press, you must know the Pothen Esches of his speech. Be it the Giscard tower, Stalin’s dacha, Castro’s real estate, the Podemos villa or the Papadimoulis houses. Or the cabin costs 500 euros or 1 million.
It is the journalist’s job to carve “even trash»From politicians to investigate the origins of those they struggle to hide. Greece, fortunately, is not North Korea to be singled out for a party mechanism. Sooner or later everything comes to light. And it is particularly offensive for Mr. Tsipras to call “mud, mud and journalism Makelio»The comments of journalists about the cabin he rents. Because it is enough to read articles by Karteros and Vaxevanis about Mareva Mitsotaki to get the term “Butcher shop“Its definition.
Personally, I believed that after the vacation on a yacht, in the summer of 2018, the SYRIZA president would avoid similar evils. I was wrong. Tsipras lost the elections in June 2019 and, carefree, rented a vacation home in Sounio, on the sea. This is what the cold facts say. The same cold events also remind us that even in 2015, at a time when memoranda were being torn, Tsipras was going by helicopter from Sounio to Maximou every morning. «He spent the summer in a villa owned by a wealthy Greek shipowner, going daily to his office by helicopter.“Wrote the” Financial Times “at the time.
Europe’s largest financial newspaper covered the holidays of a “helicopter socialist“As she called it. They are the” Financial Times “”Butcher shop»; No, the journalists did their job and exposed a certain hypocrisy of the left: the defenders of poverty, who cultivate class hatred with war cries ”.eat the richThey passionately enjoy the comforts of the bourgeoisie as soon as they acquire them. It is not “Massacre”, it is politics: finding, that is, that the left hates anyone who deviates from the image of the poor, the despised and the indignant. And at the same time, as soon as she acquires wealth herself, she gives it to her and understands it.
And what is the even greater hypocrisy? Take out spots blaming the opponents of “Dukes” and “Versailles”, when SYRIZA is a party made up of large property owners, stocks and British pounds. When you are elected prime minister with the story of the rented apartment in Kypseli, it makes sense for journalists to take care of whether you moved and where you moved. It is legitimate to see if 500 euros is really enough to rent a two-story house in Sounio. Simple and cold facts.
The last time this happened in Greece was during PASOK, when Andreas Papandreou (who came to power denouncing the old system) spent his holidays in friends’ villas in Saronida, at the Kioseoglou mansion on Patmos, on the yacht “Ariadne” from the shipowner. . He took a vacation during the Kalamata earthquakes, with Mimi, on the yacht “Guadalajara” that belonged to a well-known businessman! We lived then in times of the fall of a group of power that had gone beyond the limits of political ethics, and aesthetics, I would add.
Of course, I don’t equate Tsipras’s modest rented cottage in Sounio with Andreas’ pink villa. But the question is urgent because Tsipras came to power defending the moral advantage of the “first left of the left.” He threw so much mud at the opponents fan that now he has to apologize too for biped rented in Legraina. When you become a prime minister by hanging, vowing to fight the pathogenesis of the old political class and of camping trips to shipowners’ yachts, then you can hardly prevent others from arguing, criticizing and pursuing your lifestyle.
The mud he threw and the betrayed promises at the pole prevent, in my opinion, Mr. Tsipras from going urban: it makes sense that he wants to build a country house, a luxury house or whatever he wants, he is a former prime minister. But he got caught up in the familiar narrative on the left, according to which we love the people, as long as we don’t share their fate …
However, it is questionable why SYRIZA, which paid for these hypocrisies, repeats them in the same way after the 2019 elections. I leave them for one more hour, these issues are not current. I end with a comment from George Floridis: “The Tsipras bipod in Sounio bypasses Makronisos. Where the old left went into exile». You can see the island from the terrace. We are talking about an epic irony.
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