This is Greece … | Capital
By Kostas Stoupas
1) This is Greece …
“A well-known bad weather for many days once again found the staff state disorganized, unprepared, uncoordinated.
Central arteries of Athens closed in the first snow and never opened.
Attiki Odos turned into a trap for trapping thousands of cars, because no one thought to ban the movement of heavy vehicles that were immobilized and closed the road.
200 train passengers, among those injured in the collision, were left helpless for hours in the cold.
Thousands of households woke up without electricity or heating.
A twenty-four hour chaos for the country and suffering for its citizens and Mr. Mitsotakis, the main person responsible for the chaos, is absent.
It is as if he is somewhere else, as if he rules another country … “.
Mr. Tsipras uploaded the following announcement on his social media account yesterday.
To explain. The government bears most of the responsibility for the “chaos” created by the bad weather but no one has the right to speak who is politically responsible for the one million dead from the fire in Mati or the 24 dead from the floods in Mandra. ..
Question someone’s job in managing a crisis when it comes to expectation As it may offer a better alternative to managing similar situations. When it has been tested and proven to be worse than most of the previous ones it is not an alternative.
In this sense, the presence of Mr. Tsipras is the strongest paper of maintaining power by Mr. Mitsotakis.
The causes of failure …
It is obvious that there are responsibilities of the Civil Protection and therefore of the government that chose to block thousands of drivers in the most brilliant oil of Greek modernization, the “Attiki Odos”.
However, there are responsibilities in the private company that it manages and if the justice functioned properly, it would take care to be consistent in its aspects towards the customers.
The government’s fault lies mainly in the fact that it manages in terms of public relations and political impressions issues that require management with the criterion of maximum efficiency.
That’s why the Mitsotakis government does not avoid the trampling of the last many years to avoid making decisions that “break eggs” …
The government in the summer that replaced them Mr. Chrysochoidis and Hardalia who had shown signs of more effective management than most of the previous ones, in order to alleviate the dissatisfaction of public opinion.
Both the initial choice of Mr. Apostolakis and those that followed with Mr. Theodorikakos and Mr. Stylianidis do not seem to have been made with crisis management criteria but with criteria for managing the public image and internal party balances.
The statements e.g. of the Minister of Civil Protection on non-intervention in the occupation of the University School because this is the decision of the General Assembly is a tragic fostering of an illegal act. If we lived in a normal country, we would have to resign.
Afterwards, the intervention of the Prime Minister for compensation with 2,000 euros were blocked on “Attiki Odos” is an incentive in the next bad weather to gather tens of thousands in similar conditions.
In addition, why should only those who were trapped in private roads be compensated and not those who were excluded in public. Do not the taxes they have paid establish similar rights? Does not the state have towards the citizens …
Why is there not a single similar decision of the court for payment of compensation to a citizen either by or a private public company that failed to offer the services provided by its cases?
It is obvious that the government is reacting nervously and this increases the chances of one mistake being followed by another bigger one.
But this is Greece …
2) Comments on the article “The sufferings of Greece”
Hello Mr. Stoupa,
I have been reading your articles carefully every day for years, thank you very much for what you do and for the daily, rational information you provide us.
I am writing to you on the occasion of your article entitled “The sufferings of Greece”.
I think this is a topic you need to persevere and write about again. It is important that the issue stays up to date because without Education, no country can progress. And there can be no Education with universities or schools at the mercy of thugs or psychopaths with bats. In the end, it is very important for the creation of mature citizens to understand from an early age that for all limits, freedom does not mean doing what I want.
Personally, I do not understand how it is possible for phenomena like those of squatting and vandalism to occur. How can this be considered normal? I have lived abroad for decades, so I see all this with a different eye.
And here are 2 issues
1) On the state side, successive governments do not arrest these few hundred vandals. (In London, for example, there was once a riot in the city with looting, a few years ago, I do not remember exactly, but it was never repeated. Arrest and punishment, what the law says.) On the one hand we are equipped with state-of-the-art weapons (and correctly) to meet the Turkish challenges, and on the other hand we retreat in the face of 100 and 200 marginal elements. No government touches them. You do but no one is imprisoned. Who are they; Who protects them? I am referring to the vandals who burned down Athens in the last decade, burned people in Marfin, have turned the center of Athens and the universities like their faces and it is considered completely normal that no one has been imprisoned. I can no longer believe that someone or someone is not protecting them.
2) The racial passivity of the Greek population is proverbial. I also have a child who goes to school. There are no squats here either as a joke. But if there was even one, the parents and guardians would take action and not allow it. Unfortunately in Greece the citizens do not cooperate with each other, they have been educated in an absurd left-wing culture that considers it normal for 15-year-olds to interrupt their classes and to vandalize their school. The school does not hurt either, the stork brings the state money after all.
Indeed signs of decline but perhaps the situation is reversed. For this journalist like you, in my opinion, we must insist on the issue: what are the reasons why things got to this point and what are the reasons that prevent the imposition of Western-style regularity.
Thank you very much
(in case of publication only, initially please)
M.D.