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Thursday, November 5, 2020, 00:02
In politics, there are times when decisions are difficult and crucial. In other words, these moments can determine an entire period of government.
Without a doubt, Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s stay at the Maximos Palace to this day could only be described as uncluttered. From the first month he had to face a series of extremely complex situations. The first wave of the pandemic, Tayyip Erdogan’s “tsaboukades”, deadly floods and catastrophic earthquakes are just some of the unpredictable ones Mr. Mitsotakis had to face.
In this suffocating context, the prime minister took in his hands on Wednesday afternoon the suggestion of infectious disease specialists for a universal “closure” of the country. According to an informed source, it took little time to accept the proposed measures.
As much as one thinks that everything in the political arena is easy, the specific decision at the given moment for total closure is not only simple. Obviously, at Megaro Maximou they know that many will be dissatisfied with the second block. The secondary effects on the economy will be significant, the effect on specific groups of workers will be negative, eg. Eg in the spotlight, while there will be those who will say that the government has been late or has led the country to a lockout.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis knows all this. So despite the potential political costs, he makes it clear to his close associates that this is a difficult but necessary decision. As you have said from the outset of the pandemic, the protection of human life comes first. If, for example, in a few months it turns out that the closure movement was correct, by restricting the virus, no one will remember the difficult hours of the lockdown. On the contrary, if no one took the difficult road and within a few months the death toll rose dramatically, everyone would point to Mr. Mitsotakis as responsible, without even being wrong.
Therefore, it seems that Mr. Mitsotakis has made a difficult but clear decision: on the coronavirus issue, he is not going to take the easy path, fully in line with European requirements.
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