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tagged: 6th day, Athens, austerity measures, government reaction, Greece, Greek Parliament, mass protests, may 30 2011, syntagms square6th Day of Mass Protests in Greece – Government’s reaction
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
For sixth consequent day Greek ‘indignants’ are gathering in front of the Parliament in Athens downtown. The spontaneous movement that emerged through a call on Facebook has thousands of Greeks flocking daily to Syntagma Square to express their outrage about the austerity measures and politicians go unpunished for the huge debt. While on the first days the government showed a kind of perplexity about the mass gathering, and main stream media tried to play them down, the consiquency and the huge numbers of demonstrators could not but provoke a governmental reaction or even two…
Yesterday Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos criticized and tried to downgrade the mass protests describing them as ‘just a fashion among fans of the new thechologies .
Today, government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis distanced himself from the Deputy PM saying that “what is happening during the last days shows what really are the people’s needs today.”
Speaking to private television network ANT1, Petalotis said that “Even the fashion of new technologies is ideology” and that “indignant citizens are indeed politically motivated when they come to the streets”.
Question: What is good for protesters? To enjoy the understanding or the criticism of the government?
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Both can be good or bad. Understanding is only good when real measures will follow. Otherwise it is just an excuse to keep on doing the same old thing.
But both ‘faces’ of the government only seem to care if it is an “ideology” or not. They show not to listen and not to care one bit about the daily needs and feelings of the people outside. And that makes me afraid…