The Prime Minister’s agonizing effort to convince Parliament that he is seriously addressing the country’s challenges was accompanied by the well-known populist tactic of demagogy in an effort to absolve himself of his major responsibilities. On the one hand he demanded a consensus to manage the escalating refugee crisis, by announcing that he will request a council meeting of political leaders ahead of the summit, while on the other he launched his usual attack against the opposition, to galvanize his disappointed audience.
At a time when the county is in danger of turning into a warehouse of souls and Europe divided and unable to act, with almost the entire opposition offering support and asking for joint national initiatives, the Prime Minister is ostensibly adopting the alignment, when in practice he doing everything he can to undermine it. With the country virtually paralyzed from the farmer road blocks, the bailout program review at risk, Mr. Tsipras resorts to demagogy, threats and accusations.
Unable to face the impasses that he has brought on, he is once again cultivating division and polarizing conflict. Because he does not want to realize that the he is reaping what he has sown for years, he is trying to absolve himself and his MPs of the responsibilities, by blaming the opposition and his permanent target, the media, forgetting that his MPs and party officers cultivated the unacceptable – both then and now – climate of cruelty and intolerance.
The country truly needs a national consensus because it cannot endure the burden of the refugee crisis or the prolongation of the impasse with the creditors. However, you cannot reach a consensus with accusations, threats, populist attacks and targeting political opponents and the media, simply because the government is allergic to criticism. Because in democracy power is truly temporary and nobody has immunity…
TO VIMA
