Humour is the best way to overcome political frustration and economic despare. A Greek decided to symbolically sell his vote on the eBay. The seller makes a parody of the statement of deputy PM Theodoros Pangalos (PASOK) who claimed that the votes were on sale during elections in Greece. Indeed for many decades there was a common practice that politicians traded votes against work places in the public sector and state-run enterprises. However Pangalos dismissed any responsibility claiming it were the voters putting the politicians under pressure. Corruption is like tango. It takes two to too…
Below is the text the voter/seller posted on his eBay offer:
A FEW DAYS AGO, THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE GREEK GOVERNMENT, THEODOROS PAGKALOS, SAID IN AN INTERVIEW THAT GREEK ELECTIONS VOTES ARE SOLD. WELL, I DON’T WANT TO DISAPPOINT HIM.VIDEO PROOF FROM THE VOTING PROCESS WILL BE UPLOADED. On Apr-09-12 at 18:29:10 PDT, seller added the following information:Dear Ebay, you told me that i cannot sell this item. I am clearly NOT violating any rule or policy. I am selling the space inside MY envelope on the day of the elections. I’m not selling Greece, i’m selling a service. Thank you. 🙂 THE ELECTIONS IN GREECE ARE PROBABLY GOING TO TAKE PLACE IN MAY, SO I FOLLOW HIS ADVICE. I SELL MY VOTE, I’LL VOTE ANYTHING YOU TELL ME TO. IT DOESN’T NEED TO BE A POLITICAL PARTY. YOU’LL TELL ME WHAT TO PUT IN THE ENVELOPE. ONLY PRINTABLE ITEMS THOUGH, LIKE ADVERTISEMENTS,TEXT,PHOTOS,ETC. MY INITIAL INTENTION FOR MY VOTE WAS A BLANK ONE. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THE GREEK ELECTORAL SYSTEM COUNTS BLANK VOTES AS INVALID. CONTENT THAT WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED INCLUDE BUT NOT LIMITED TO: RACIST CONTENT,COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL,ADULT CONTENT,VIOLENCE,CURSING. |
UPDATE: Meanwhile, eBay doown the offer down lol
can you imagine if our politicians were more tech savvy. i could easily see ministers selling lucrative goverment contracts on ebay. tsohatzopoulos and the rest could advertise their services on ebay.
Ehhhh, isn’t that an illegal act? 😕
which one. selling ur vote or politicians selling contracts? according to the goverment no politician is ever guilty. as for the guy as fas as i can tell. his vote is his property. it is illegal for a candiadte to buy a vcte i dont think its illegal for someone to sell the contents of his envelope, provided it does not interefere with election proceedings. for example putting something that will destroy his ballot as well as any it comes in contacrt with.
In that interpretation it might indeed be legal. But the guy runs this under the header “Greece, elections vote for sale”. And in a lot of countries that is an illegal act. As illegal as buying a vote.
But I think E-Bay has now removed the ‘item’…