Mikis Theodorakis: “We are victims of a tragic farce”

Veteran politician and famous music composer Mikis Theodorakis lashes out against the coalition government of left-wing SYRIZA and nationalist Independent Greeks. In a text uploaded on his personal website on the day the Greek government votes on 5.6-billion austerity measures bill, Theodorakis speaks with hard words against the government describing it as “left-right political construct” and accuses it that it obeys the dictates by foreigners.

Theodorakis describes the coalition government as “a Left-Right-wing political construct of overwhelming electoral and popular minority, that obeying the foreigners’ dictates it destroys the present and the future of our country unscrupulously, weak-willed, arrogantly and without shame and apparently in full consciousness of the harm it causes.”

The 91-year-old former left and former right politician recalls then a long story as to why and how the present government can do this: due to a constitutional change in 1986 that scrapped a 1974-Constitutional article that stipulated that the President could dissolve the Parliament and call for early elections if there was a discord between the Government and the Popular will.

Back then, Theodorakis disagreed with scrapping the article but it was a done thing with the votes of PASOK and KKE – at that time Theodorakis was an MP on KKE ticket.

Noting that the scaping of that article was a “monstrosity, the work of our rotten political system with which some violate the will of the Greek people, wearing the garment of a tattered legitimacy,” Theodorakis concludes:

It is “a tragic comedy that really is as if it was done so that Mr. Tsipras can rant today stating that he represents the Greek people, while in reality not even 20% of Greeks follow him.”

…And?

PS I suppose the moment Greeks stop playing the victim card and start assume responsibility for their actions, there are chances that this nation’s political scene can finally grow up.