The Prime Minister’s necessary preoccupation with the international aspects of the financial crisis seems to prevent the commencement of the government’s work. The first weeks have gone by with the people witnessing individual government officers address the crisis. Their actions were not the result of thought and decisions of collective government bodies, but obviously they are the belief of the author of each decision, typically a minister.
This gives the impression that as far as organization and expression goes, the government is more like the party mechanism that gave birth to it. It is obvious that prominent government officers are not aware that everything depends on time.
Voters and non-voters are justifiably watching over the shortcomings and omissions in government policy. Certain actions, even though they were welcomed by the people at first, are quickly turning out to resemble remnants from the bygone Carnival.
We have all realized that things are simply entertaining at the Ministry of Finances thanks to the publicity of the radical minister. But even those who like the Minister, who became famous due to his particular sartorial preferences, believe that his daily presence at his ministry is necessary.
We needn’t mention omissions at other ministers, just like it is well-known that various ministers take initiatives without informing the Prime Minister’s office. In other words, it seems necessary for most of the ministers and deputies to go through a seminar on governance. There they may learn that a government cannot be a free-for-all.
The voters trusted the Prime Minister to govern, not the shadows of the past which obviously want to lead the country to the “paradises” of History.
Stavros P. Psycharis
Originally published in the Sunday print edition
