It is absurd, at a time when the first encouraging signs emerge, after five years of a deep recession, to threaten the efforts and sacrifices of the Greek people through a peculiar political civil war, where Golden Dawn’s neo-Nazis are at the forefront. It will be a real tragedy if the miserable Baltakos affair undermines the political climate and paves the way for a new cycle of uncertainty and destabilization in the country.
It is not the government’s cohesion that is at steak at the moment, but rather the path to exiting the crisis. When almost everyone recognizes that Greece has achieved far more than what anyone expected, including the creditors and markets, an unrelenting internal political confrontation is taking place, which subverts social cohesion and the progress of the economy.
The country and society have no more room for political vendettas, nor a new division where the far-right and the neo-Nazis act as regulators. The upcoming elections cannot and must not become a beyond limits and reason clash that will endanger everything we have achieved up to now.
The government and opposition ought to comprehend that worry and pain of the Greek people and set aside their partisan interests. It would be a tragedy if after all the disdain and disappointment they did not realize that common sense must prevail.
No party, or for that matter society and the economy, ever gained anything from the country taking a new step back. On the contrary, we risk finding ourselves in a new mess with unpredictable consequences for all of us.
TO VIMA
