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The
result for the leadership of the main opposition party, New
Democracy, in Greece after Sunday's elections, must had brought waves
of relief to the Brussels-Berlin axis. Brussels bureaufascists and
Berlin directorate have now the best "backup" alternative
in case that Tsipras administration attempt to diverge from the
catastrophic policies imposed by the European Financial Dictatorship
(EFD).
From
Guardian
:
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Greek
conservatives have elected Kyriakos Mitsotakis as their new
leader, hoping he can revive their fortunes and challenge leftist
prime minister Alexis Tsipras who is still popular despite opting
for austerity. The conservative New Democracy party seeks to
recover from its heavy election defeat in September, when Greeks
re-elected Tsipras’ Syriza party amid capital controls on bank
deposits and a harsh third bailout with the country’s foreign
lenders. Mitsotakis, a 47-year-old reformist lawmaker and scion of
one of Greece’s most influential political families, is expected
to pile pressure on 41-year-old Tsipras before a crucial
parliamentary vote on pension reform, as part of the first review
of Greece’s bailout programme.
[...]
New
Democracy ruled Greece alone from 2004 to 2009 but has seen its
popularity wane during the debt crisis. The party lost an election
in January that first brought Tsipras to power and a second one in
September. An ex-banker who has been a critic of trade union
practices and state waste, Mitsotakis has called Tsipras a liar
but also hinted that he could cooperate with him on national
issues on specific terms. His father Constantinos served as prime
minister from 1990 to 1993 and his older sister, Dora Bakoyianni,
was foreign minister from 2006 to 2009.
[...]
New
Democracy initially opposed the country’s international
bailouts, but after winning a parliamentary election in 2012 and
forming a coalition with the socialist Pasok party, it brought in
austerity and unpopular reforms demanded by the country’s
international lenders.
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Despite that
Tsipras finally surrendered to the EFD after the financial coup
against Greece last summer, the EFD executives (Merkel, Schäuble,
Juncker, Draghi etc.) are not feeling very comfortable with the
current Greek government, especially after the political developments
in Portugal and Spain, where the most faithful to the neoliberal
agenda bi-partisan establishment, has collapsed after the latest
elections.
It is
certain that they worry now about the possibility that Tsipras could
manage to form a united front with other European forces, which would
mean that the plan for the completion of the neoliberal experiment in
Greece and its expansion throughout eurozone, might be put in danger.
The new
leader of New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is probably the ideal
alternative solution. The man that could do the job, which is to
apply accurately all the cruel neoliberal policies to the slightest
detail, according to the Greek experiment.
Mitsotakis
belongs to the team of New Democracy top members (Chatzidakis,
Georgiadis, etc.), who are the most faithful to the neoliberal
doctrine and absolutely dedicated to it. Under the pretext of
"reforms", he will put a definite end to what is left from
the social state in Greece, following consistently the timeline of
the Greek neoliberal experiment.
His father,
Constantinos Mitsotakis, served as prime minister from 1990 to 1993.
He was the one who opened the road for neoliberalism in Greece. A
path that the Socialist Kostas Simitis has faithfully followed later
as a prime minister, after the capitulation of Bill Clinton with the
banking capital and the deregulation of the US economy. Since then,
the door for the destruction of Greece was wide open.
It is
characteristic that after the announcement of the results for the new
leadership in New Democracy, the media establishment made extended
references to the winner (like someone who could really save
Greece), while the internet trolls were propagating the estimation
that a "new hope", or, "new age" starts for the
country. This is at least ridiculous, considering that Kyriakos
Mitsotakis is one of the most authentic representatives of the
biggest political families in Greece. He is an authentic
representative of the old political establishment that brought Greece
in current situation.
Therefore,
there is nothing new and nothing hopeful. Mitsotakis is just a secure
"backup" for the Greek plutocracy and the
euro-dictatorship, in case that Tsipras act this time "unpredictably"
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