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Today will surely be mentioned in the political calendar of the future for many reasons.
For the first time
For the first time amidst the ban on anniversary events (gatherings of more than 3 people) due to the shutdown of a prime minister and even center-right like Kyriakos Mitsotakis He deposited a wreath at the Polytechnic, on the historic site of the uprising against the dictatorship. A KINAL delegation also laid a wreath at the same place.
A wreath that the left parties refused to deliver to a “Polytechnic controlled by the police.”
On the contrary, oh SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras they chose the site of the former EAT-ESA to hold an anniversary event while not trying to march to the US embassy.
The KKE, in the presence of Dimitris Koutsoumbas, chose breaking the ban on rallies in practice arriving in the morning at the American embassy after laying a wreath at the site of the former EAT-ESA.
THE Giannis Varoufakis and MERA25 deputies with police obstacles he managed to walk and arrive from Polytechnic to the US embassy late at night.
Crossfire
What is widely recognized, however, is that the government, by choosing to impose a draconian ban on rallies and marches with the threat of criminal penalties and death sentences, faced crossfire.
Breaking the ban, the KKE created a situation in which Kyriakos Mitsotakis was thrown to his right for two reasons:
The first was for the floral offering that he deposited at the Polytechnic, irritating the reflections of the hard right wing of the SW, and the second was the criticism directed at the government, directed at the Ministry of Civil Protection, for its inability to implement this unprecedented. ban on rallies.
Right-wing extremists within the field of government said that, in the end, Mr. Mitsotakis seemed inconsistent with what he had said in Parliament the day before that “the laws apply to the Communist Party, to you (ss means Dimitris Koutsoumbas ) and Mr. Varoufakis “.
Legality
In this climate, the attack by the police forces in the center of Athens against the KKE meeting took place at noon. provocations against members of Parliament and its executives, the arrests and extraditions, in the presence of the KKE secretary, Dimitris Koutsoumbas.
Since then the backdrop of the previous days with joint text they co-signed KKE, DAY 25 Y SYRIZA transported on the highway. The KKE lifted the main burden of the political confrontation with the government, practically challenging the ban as MERA25, while together with the assistance of SYRIZA they denounced the government authoritarianism.
It should be noted that SYRIZA in the previous days, despite its position against the ban that was clearly formed at the last moment and under pressure from the KKE and MERA25, insisted on the position against the marches. However, it is also a fact that the government spokesman and KINAL accused him of giving political coverage to the marches of the other two parties.
After all, the far-right Greek Solution also appeared against the ban, even though today it accused the Parliament government that did not impose “legality” and launched an attack on KKE who broke the law.
However, for the SYRIZA event at the former EAT-ESA, Alexis Tsipras also spoke about a break in the practice of banning rallies.
Street fights between the KKE and the Police
In any case, after many years, a remarkable fact is recorded. On the one hand, the unprecedented violence of the Police against a parliamentary party and in particular the KKE, recalling the 1999 backdrop With Clinton’s visit and on the other hand, the political confrontation with the government over incidents and street fights in the center of Athens is not focused on the so-called “bahalakids” but on the left and especially on the KKE.
In this context, Michalis Chrysochoidis in his remarks earlier in the night tried to amuse the impressions by stating that the government made a political decision to tolerate political events and that the ban on rallies referred only to marches, although he acknowledged that they were observed by the parties.
What remains to be seen is whether the government will continue its opposition to the KKE so the Michalis Chrysochoidis He left open the subject of the persecution to the organizers of the rally in the center of Athens.
Rearrangements and processes
By opting for a ban on rallies, Kyriakos Mitsotakis created the conditions for processes and reorganizations in the broader area of the left, creating difficulties for the left of SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras, for whom the Prime Minister himself had declared that he had made a proposal “on co-government”. the proposal of the Minister of Health of common acceptance.
At the same time, however, Mr. Mitsotakis opened the Aeolus bag from his right, sparking a war with the KKE. The hardest part of the Right in and out of the SW demands that this war come to an end.
In any case, in the midst of a health crisis and a lockdown with a ban on rallies, the political game literally took to the streets and this in itself is, at the very least, a development that could hardly have been imagined a few weeks or even a few weeks ago. months in these conditions. pandemic.
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