A campaign poster for SYRIZA politician Stefanos Kasselakis in Athens, June 2024. Photo: Anthony Grant
Greece created politics, invented democracy, and has some of the most articulate government spokespeople around. And they don't suffer fools gladly.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is the head of the governing, center-right New Democracy party. His chief political rival is the upstart, polarizing Stefanos Kasselakis, who helms the left-wing SYRIZA party.
Mr. Kasselakis, a onetime volunteer or something on a campaign for the piece of lumber that is currently called President Biden, is a master of social media but at the moment not much else. So it was in apparent reference to a Facebook post (does anyone still use Facebook?) that New Democracy's press rep, Nikos Romanos, stated the following today:
"From the long post of Mr. Kasselakis from the USA, we have to skip most of it, which is spent on fierce intra-party attacks against his former and current 'comrades.' Those are their issues.
However, we cannot ignore the fact that the president of SYRIZA makes a cynical confession. He essentially admits, and indeed in the most blunt way, that SYRIZA does not have a government program, stating verbatim: 'This time we are not going to have a last-minute pre-election program, a copy-paste from the various sections of the party...no. We will make a program for everything.'
In other words, he admits that he had been fooling the citizens for months.
Everyone now understands why he did not dare to appear before the Finance Committee of the House [Greek Parliament], as he had been repeatedly invited, in order to refute the figures of the General Accountant on the exorbitant cost of his proposals."
Well-said, we say.
