#mitsotakis

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yanis.varoufakis It is reported that Netanyahu's plane recently landed in Athens for "protection".

' We speak not only of moral humiliation of Greekism but also of suicidal destruction by our country of International Law, which we are constantly invoking.

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This week's newsletter from AthensLive is out:

* What does “without too much of a humanitarian cost” mean?

* How Greece is involved in the rising tensions in the Middle East

* ‘Greek Watergate’ - A testimony and a reportage

The Greek PM visited Israel this week, providing full support to the country. At the same time, the Greeks seem divided on whose side they are on as to the conflict; slightly more are those siding with the Palestinians.

US forces use the Greek bases of Souda in Crete and Elefsina in Attica to station their support aircraft and host Special Operation Forces. At the same time, authorities in Greece seem worried that the Israel-Palestinian war could trigger “terrorist attacks” in the country.

Greek Justice has done nothing for 18 months to prosecute people about the wiretapping scandal. Yet, it prosecutes members of the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy - ADAE, said ADAE president Christos Rammos, testifying to the European Parliament LIBE Committee. A report also revealed that action by the Top Court may have resulted in not unveiling the possible connection between the Greek government and the Predator.

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[thegreekstranger]

The result of the general election of last Sunday in my country was very bad: a triumph for the Right and more particularly for the party of Nea Dimokratia of the incumbent prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and a crushing defeat for the major party of the Left, the Syriza of Alexis Tsipras. This result is stunning. Not that Syriza did not have its important weaknesses, but Mitsotakis’ conservative government had failed spectacularly in important issues like Covid and the rising cost of life and Mitsotakis himself was compromised with serious violations of the democratic order (efforts to control and manipulate the media and the judicial system, but also eavesdroppings of political opponents, of journalists, or even of...ministers of the government whose loyalty to Mitsotakis was doubted). The policies of Mitsotakis’ government toward refugees and people seeking asylum were also awful and contrary to the international law. Partial explanations for this unexpected outcome of the election can be found in the support of almost all the established media for Mitsotakis and the Right and in the tactical mistakes of Syriza. But I think that there is also a more general and deeper conservative turn of a large part of the society, for reasons that must be analyzed.   

Now, despite the result of the election and the triumph of the Right, the proportional electoral system did not allow an absolute majority of Mitsotakis’ party (Nea Dimokratia) in the Parliament. Given that Mitsotakis has no interest in coalition governments with far right parties or with centrist parties, a new general election will be held in the next month, this time with a different electoral system, which gives an important bonus to the first party. If the Right expands even further its electoral base, it could now gain even a supermajority, a thing which would open the way for a reform of the Constitution in conservative/reactionary direction. I hope that this will not happen and that Syriza will recover, at least partially. Anyway, we have entered a new and difficult period, with a Right far more powerful than before. I think that, despite this reality, leftist and progressive people of my country should avoid defeatism, although it is sure that many things must change in the Left, if it wants to make a comeback.

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When you have Mitsotakis on your talkshow, you need the biggest Mati ever. You can also use it like a shield against the Mitsotakis™ Curse, the way it's positioned

[blood-stained-razorblades]

What the fuck

Idk if you guys have heard, but since the new right-wing president got elected in Greece, there has been a continuous attack at the anarchist movement and squats, especially in Exarcheia. Cops go to squats at 5:30 in the morning and force the people in squats to evacuate and then they close the doors and windows with bricks and concrete. They even demolished one (in Ioannina) .

Three of the anarchist squats that have been forcefully evacuated were home for more than 100 immigrants and refugees each, including a lot of children. One squat was also a school for them. The cops dragged them out of the building and put them in police prison buses and they transferred them to a center where they checked their papers. The "legal" ones were sent to camps that are supposed to take care of them, but if you've heard, they are overcrowded and can't cover the needs of all these people. Some even try to kill themselves because of these conditions (there are lots of examples from Moria). We don't know what happened to the "illegal" ones.

Also, a few weeks ago, during an anarchist music festival in Exarcheia, cops threw teargas at people. They threw it under the stage and inside an anarchist place while there were people in there. People panicked and started running away, a woman had an epileptic attack even. And after that, later during the night, anarchists attacked cops with molotov cocktails and of course all the media were like "bad anarchists attacked our poor innocent cops for no reason again".

And just today, cops removed a container building that was an anarchist book exchange centre in Exarcheia. They literally took away the books because "the container was illegally built" . Our president is proud of that. I can't believe there is such thing as "forbidden books" in 2019.

All of that is happening due to the very false idea that anarchists are the problem because there is "weapon and drug dealing, and squats are labs for molotovs, and they break stuff", according to the media. Meanwhile, the majority of drug dealers are not even anarchists and only come at Exarcheia late at night. The politicians promote that as "the cleansing of Athens from illegallity". But we can obviously see that this is an attack against ideas that are against them.

But they can't evict a movement!

Solidarity with Exarcheia!

[fromgreecetoanarchy]

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Eleftherios Venizelos,7 times Greek prime minister,is pictures here with his nephew Constantine Mitsotakis.Mitsotakis was the Greek prime minister from 1990 to 1993.While Venizelos had his own party,The Liberals,Mitsotakis was a member of New Democracy,became it’s leader and then prime minister at the greek elections of 1990.

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A bullet in the head

*         How much does a life cost?

*         Riots, racism & cop-laundering

*         The PM just walked out of... the Parliament

- are the main headlines to be found inside this highly informative weekly must-read from and about Greece. The Greek police shot a 16-year-old Roma teen in the head after chasing him for leaving a gas station without paying. He had filled up 20 euros. The boy is struggling for his life. The Greek government announced a bonus for all police a day after the incident. This also happened a day before the tragic anniversary of the murder of 16-year-old Grigoropoulos by a policeman back in 2008. Mainstream media attempted cop-washing. Main opposition SYRIZA cornered the Greek PM to answer if the National Intelligence Service EYP had wiretapped the General Staff Chief. The PM just left the Parliament without answering.

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