The battle in the trenches around the bill which will soon be submitted in Parliament to ratify the deal with the troika must come to an end as soon as possible. Professional groups that feel they are affected by some of the regulations and MPs who are called upon to vote for it have the right to know exactly what sort of changes are included and why they are necessary.
As understandable as the time pressure on the government might be due to the upcoming Eurogroup, it is obligated to allow MPs and parties the bare minimum time to examine the articles and weigh their position. The government should therefore expedite the submission and allow for a substantive debate in Parliament.
It is unavoidable that during a quasi-election period tension will be created and fueled by a climate of pressure, since the MPs are largely still bound by clientelist logic. After this – hopefully – last set of bailout commitments, we must get over with this vote of critical bills under immense pressure of time, which undermine the authority of Parliament and MPs
Both the country and the economy demand that we do away with the climate of uncertainty, instability and fruitless conflict. It is high time we set aside the political conflicts on how and what we negotiated with the troika and finally focus on planning the post-bailout era. So rather than carry on fighting in the rear over what changes the troika will enforce, we should concern ourselves with what changes we want and with what changes we will change our future.
TO VIMA
