It is rumored that one does not want to remain in place anymore and the other is not in a rush! Of course, we are talking about the Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and the leader of the opposition Alexis Tsipras.
It is a fact that the burden and responsibility of the government are unbearable. Often, almost all Prime Ministers in Greece have expressed a desire to resign, unable to stand the pressure of public opinion and the people’s anger.
From the day that Konstantinos Karamanlis asked “who is running this country?”– which later became a political legend – until today, almost all parliamentary government presidents have expressed similar thoughts and intentions to resign.
In this case, Samaras and Tsipras have to face problems that are so difficult that it appears that one wants to hand power over, while the other wants to prolong the current situation – the longer that New Democracy and PASOK remain in power, the stronger SYRIZA will become after all.
Taking this into consideration, Samaras and Tsipras are facing each other, with each making their estimations based on the polls, which they interpret accordingly.
Because these conflicts seem to be ridiculous, there is a way to get both “challengers” to reveal their plans.
Everyone speaks of modernizing society and radical reforms.
Can they give us a list of reforms that have been implemented from 2000 onwards? More to the point, can they inform us which of these must be implemented and who is interrupting them?
At some point the masks must fall.
Stavros P. Psycharis
Originally published in the Sunday print edition
