“The weeks ahead will bring waves, but we have the power to put the storm behind us and lead the country into calm waters, so that this winter of uncertainty will be succeeded by a spring of hope,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in his New Year’s message on Friday.
Greeks, he said, “need to be united, mature and careful.” They need to “close their ears to talk of disaster and defeatism, and listen only to the voice of science and truth.”
Following the recommendations of the state and the experts, he added, “is the best gift we can give ourselves and those around us.”
“It is also the best prologue to the new and hope-filled chapter of 2022,” the PM minister added.
Making a brief reference of how the government helped citizens and businesses during the pandemic as well as economic achievements of the government, Mitsotakis said that “Greece is changing, despite the adventure it is experiencing. Even that, however, is not enough. I feel that, as expectations are high, difficulties are often underestimated. The uncertain present also makes us forget the dark past. On the other hand, there are no simple solutions to complex problems. Especially when these are unprecedented and require constant adjustment.”
The Greek PM promised to keep trying managing the Greek boat through the pandemic storm with the citizen as the only one “compass.”
“After all, everywhere in the world, the same phenomena are observed and, more or less, the same measures are applied. So, the boat can move forward but the storm does not stop hitting it. That is why I will say again that our steering wheel will have only one compass: the citizen. And our action will be driven by a single verb: the verb I try,” PM Mitsotakis stressed.
They need to “close their ears to talk of disaster and defeatism, and listen only to the voice of science and truth.” That sentence made me smile. NOBODY is listening to the scientists who are the only people outlining the situation as it truly is. Everyone is listening to WHO and the Media). If everyone listened to the scientists the world would not be in the mess it’s in today.
I do agree that the populace does expect too much, too fast from governments; change moves at a snail’s pace and the way people seem to do it is if the current government can’t get it done in one term, we’ll get impatient and just vote opposition in and start from scratch…again. However, this government has done horrible things from the start putting Greece back to the dark ages and another term for them would put the nail in the coffin.
“The same measures” were not applied, Kouli, as only authoritarian governments like yours increased the police force and started beating its citizens into submission rather than increasing the healthcare budget.
Patting himself on the back…the same guy who has repeatedly said that he, the prime minister, cannot be blamed for the terrible things that transpire in the country that he controls. But he is glad to claim responsibility for anything he thinks is good.
Watch out, Plebs – his compass is pointing toward you and he’s going to run you all over!
we’ll find calm waters when this criminal is behind bars.
This kindred nation with a dwindling 10 million has undergone tribulations requiring immortal tolerance, from punishing financial reforms, territorial and cultural provocations, after invaders and earthquakes, to now Covid, etc., that leaves little to the imagination or anything to be “unprecedented.
It is ironic that this tiny nation who has contributed so much, if not everything, from ancient to modern times still struggles to survive in a world that contradicts and defies its invaluable lessons.