Far-Right
threats on the perspective of a Leftist government
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It is proven
historically that when the big capital feels that its sovereignty is
threatened mobilize its far-Right mechanisms. After the recent
revelations for tragicomic secret meetings a few days before the
national elections
(http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2015/01/preparing-new-gladio-for-left-in-greece.html),
new threats came publicly from the far-Right component of the
neoliberal Right.
From
enikos.gr:
Greek
opposition parties on Monday slammed outgoing health minister and
New Democracy candidate Makis Voridis after he said his party
would do "whatever it takes" to prevent Syriza from
winning the general elections on Sunday.
Speaking
at a small gathering in Aspropyrgos on Sunday, Voridis made
reference to the 1946-49 Greek Civil War, fought by pro-government
and pro-royalist forces against Communist rebels, in his opening
remarks.
"Our
generation will not hand over the country," he said. "We
will do whatever it takes. We will defend with our votes on Sunday
what our grandfathers defended bravely with arms."
Voridis,
who joined New Democracy in 2012 after leaving nationalist LAOS,
went on to give his interpretation of the key issue at stake on
January 25.
"The
meaning of the confrontation next Sunday, the meaning of the
elections - don’t kid yourselves: You’re not choosing a party
or an economic programme. Next Sunday is a major ideological
clash. It is a clash between two worlds. The clash is between the
values of the homeland, religion and family, which we represent,
and levelling everything, which the Left represents."
Syriza
spokesman Panos Skourletis accused Voridis of making "intolerant,
civil-war statements that have no precedent in the post-junta
era," and called on Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to explain
himself.
Skourletis
said the health minister showed "the real face of Samaras’
party saying he will do 'whatever it takes' not to respect the
vote of the Greek people” while adopting "slogans from the
seven-year Junta."
The
Democratic Left (DIMAR) also criticised Voridis for "trying
to return political life to times that Greeks would prefer to
forget" and added that "democracy and the popular
verdict cannot be threatened or blackmailed."
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What does
"We will do whatever it takes." mean? Especially when it
comes from far-Right Voridis? A comment picked from discussions in
various websites, depicts probably the concerns of many in Greece, a
few days before the elections:
[
WHAT WILL THE LEFT DO IN CASE OF RIGGED ELECTIONS?
...
the state-parastate said: "We will do whatever it takes."
Historically,
in Greece this has been "applied" by the (far)Right
"raiders" by three ways listed below, starting from the
most moderate:
a)
Setting up the elections
b)
Setting up and Violence
c)
Dictatorship
Taking
the most moderate scenario, Samaras wins by only a few votes in
rigged elections (like Bush in Florida).
In that case, what will SYRIZA do? Should accept the result? May I
remind that we go to elections under the UNPRECEDENTED situation,
which is WITHOUT an intermediate government, but also, the system of
the electronic recording of the results will be conducted by a
private company! ]
A
short background of Voridis to understand someone the situation
better. From the Press Project:
Makis
Voridis, born in 1964, has been politically active for his entire
adult life and the vast majority of his political career has been
with groups on the extreme far right. Now he is Greece’s newest
Health Minister and one of the most prominent supporters of the
reform agenda.
As
a high school student at Athens College (a private school and alma
mater of many of the country’s business and political elite), he
had leadership positions in nationalist student groups. According
to a Haaretz article written by another former alumnus of the
school, during his time there Voridis had formed a fascist group
called ‘Free pupils’ which painted swastikas on the walls and
whose members greeted each other saying ‘Heil Hitler’.
A
lawyer by trade he graduated Athens University Law School in 1990.
As a student Voridis is reported to have formed another fascist
group and taken part in street brawls, pursuing and attacking
leftist groups. Photos from this period appear to show an
axe-wielding Voridis patrolling the streets. Following his
graduation he was appointed leader of the youth wing of EPEN - a
far-right party founded a year earlier by the jailed leader of the
1967 military coup, Giorgos Papadopoulos - succeeding Nikos
Michaloliakos who went on to found the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn
which he leads to this day.
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A
short historical background of the the elections of 1961 that became
known in the Greek political history as the "elections of
violence and fraud". The founder of Samaras' New Democracy,
Constantine Karamanlis, won the elections. From wikipedia:
“Parliamentary
elections were held in Greece on 29 October 1961. The result was a
third consecutive victory for Constantine Karamanlis and his National
Radical Union party, which won 176 of the 300 seats in Parliament.
Nevertheless, the leader of the newly formed Center Union (an
alliance of all liberal and centrist parties), Georgios Papandreou
and the leaders of the left-wing Pandemocratic Agrarian Front
questioned the legality of the results, claiming that Karamanlis, the
army and the palace rigged the vote. Papandreou announced an
'uncompromising struggle' (ανένδοτος αγών) against
Karamanlis' government, demanding new elections. Karamanlis denied
all the allegations of Papandreou, although the opposition parties
insisted in them. Eventually, the elections of 1961 became known in
the Greek political history as the 'elections of violence and fraud'
(εκλογές της βίας και νοθείας).”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_legislative_election,_1961)
It
would be worth to remind that after the assassination of Pavlos Fyssas,
the systemic establishment "fired some warning shots":
Despite
the humorous comments that flooded twitter, on rumors of a coup
d'etat due to the "calling" of Greek army reservists
this Saturday, the threat is real and the message is clear: either
you will accept our neoliberal dictatorship with the mask of a
pseudo-democracy and what this means (dissolving welfare state,
dissolving labor rights, new cuts in wages and pensions, massive
lay-offs and privatizations), or, you will get a military one,
with the neo-nazis acting uncontrolled among you!
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