It was like watching a 15-member high school holding a state in its hands. This image sums up what we experienced before 2019, as highlighted again in yesterday’s TV “thriller” on SKAI, in “In the Millionth”.
What’s the first comment? Panagiotis Lafazanis and his references to options that were presented as alternatives but seemed unworkable? The Giannis Varoufakis, about whom Gerun Dijsselbloem commented that he was using campaign rhetoric, while – it was said – in private moments, even in an elevator, he completely revised his stance?
From the problems of communicating with headsets and translations in crucial negotiations, to descriptions of “bluffing” that tested the limits of the country, the backdrop that emerges is that of a period of intense experimentation. And amidst it all, the most shocking report:the idea – even as a script – of selling Acropolis, a point that reasonably begs the question of who could have proposed it, one that evokes shock and awe at how amateurish the whole approach was.
The change of government with Kyriakos Mitsotakis in 2019 needs no comparisons, because when you compare a normal government to chaos, you certainly do an injustice to normality. Perhaps, after all, both Alexis Tsipras and Yanis Varoufakis knew very well why they didn’t accept the invitations. Whether they will admit it publicly, I find it unlikely!
