So there is the answer to the “traditional” political question “who governs this land”: Greece is being governed by the “parastatal organizations” created by the country’s political leaderships!
It is well known that the System bread all those who do not hand over the capital they have accumulated, at the decision and instruction of Parliament and governments, in order to address the emergency and the State can avoid a default.
It is clear that the government is facing empty treasuries. There is no money to pay part of the external debts and to pay wages and pensions in the interior. As the days go by and there is no solution in sight, the government correctly decided to use the money that municipalities, pension funds and other organizations have “parked” in the banks.
Our house is on fire and we are singing – well, they are singing in Parliament and using unsuitable language. “A vulgar idiom reflects low intellect”, a late professor in Athens used to say ex cathedra.
The so-called municipal rulers rose up and mobilized to prevent the use of the funds which they have and which would solve, even temporarily, the problem with the empty treasuries.
One could simply remember the life and times of municipal ruler who formed the infamous “mayor mafia”, to remember a revealing investigation that To Vima carried out and published years ago and which fell on deaf ears.
Under real conditions the government could respond “woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites” to the municipal leaders who discovered that the government decision for collecting the funds is illegal and unconstitutional.
In order to address an emergency, the law provides the Ministerial Council with the right to compose a legislative act with immediate effect (on order to tackle the great emergency in time) and is confirmed with a vote in Parliament within twenty days.
Those affected protested that the government improperly solved the Gordian knot. As if they would not protest again should the government had decided to submit the bill in Parliament according to the prescribed procedure.
However, as we get neared to 100 days of the Tsipras government being in power, no reforms – of the ones which the government can pass without orders from Brussels – have been passed.
Of course, it is necessary for the Ministers to go to their offices in order to produce work!
PS: Useful information: It should be noted that Konstantinos Karamanlis had appointed the director of his office Paschalis Kontas as the person in charge of noting what time the ministers would arrive at their offices in the morning.
Stavros P. Psycharis
Originally published in the Sunday print edition
