It isn’t just the daily problems of survival that make like difficult for the Greek people, the SYRIZA government is doing all that it can to extend the insecurity and uncertainty they experience. The constant delays are harming even more what is left of the country’s productive fabric and undermines all effort to stabilize the economy.
And all of this because Mr. Tsipras and his officers cannot bear to manage the cost of the responsibilities they have assumed. After last summer’s 180-degree turns they made commitments which now seem unbearable and are using the usual media spins and endless blackmailing which they are used to, in order to pass off their retreat from their so-called non-negotiable red lines, as a wave of resistance against the wretched IMF.
One day they ask for an extraordinary summit, which is rejected immediately, only for them to settle for the appointment of an extraordinary Eurogroup next week. Nobody knows exactly what they want, what they are after and up to where they are determined to go. They are creating another crisis to cover for their inter-party tension and to pressure their MPs who are going through their own drama, since they said one thing, promised another and voted for yet something else.
The bailout review which should have ended months ago is delaying not just because of the creditors’ excessive demands, but the government majority and Mr. Tsipras cannot bear the cost of their ovidian changes. They rose to power fighting the bailout and ended up accepting one after the other.
If Mr. Tsipras does not want to lead the country into another painful adventure, then he must finally decide with whom to go and leave behind. Neither society, nor the economy can endure to wait for SYRIZA’s so-called abrupt maturation, from an general protest movement into a reliable force for managing a truly difficult situation for Greece.
TO VIMA
