It seems that Zoe Konstantopoulou has decided to turn the Parliament into her personal mud-slinging arena.
It amply demonstrates that the only “program” available to the Liberty Party is to produce toxicity. In a new argument to the Committee on Institutions and Transparency,Konstantopoulou attempted to flatten any notion of institutional dialogue by launching a attack “against everyone” that lacks any seriousness and basic respect for democracy.
The beginning was made with ND’s Notis Mitarakis, whom the president of the People’s Party attempted to “judge” and “condemn” in summary proceedings, linking him to unsubstantiated accusations and essentially calling for his exclusion from parliamentary proceedings.
Mitarakis’s response, which he called “unacceptable and offensive intervention“, was the only institutionally appropriate response to a politician who calls anyone who does not agree with her or who just happens to be in her field of vision at the time “suspects and fugitives”.
But Constantopoulou didn’t stop there. She opened her “glossary of insults” and began dishing out characterizations that increase the level of our political culture.
She called Justice Minister Giorgos Florides – a man who is fighting to clean up and speed up the justice system – a “fascist” for daring to set limits on her own frenzy. “For a fascist to say that I am associated with a criminal organization is a criminal act,” she said in her usual mouthpiece, while targeting those who criticize her own authoritarian ways with phrases like “fascists.”
Her attacks extended to Adonis Georgiadis, whom she accused in terms of parapolitical intrigue that “he wants to eat Mitsotakis’s position“, while she did not fail to pull Alexis Tsipras out of the dustbin, claiming that he “destroyed the country”.
It is truly admirable how one person manages to see conspiracies, “blackmailed prime ministers” and “unscrupulous powers” everywhere, while she leads a party whose sole task is disrupting meetings and spewing mud.
In the face of this institutional “steamroller”, the government and its ministers remain committed to their task, refusing to slip into the level of a political brawl reminiscent of a badly-constructed street performance.
Mrs. Constantopoulou’s insistence on presenting herself as the only “incorruptible” punisher, while using vocabulary that would make even the most fanatical supporters of the podium blush, mathematically leads her to political handwriting. Greece needs a serious opposition, not a “voice” that only succeeds in causing headaches to the institutions and sadness to the citizens watching the debasement of the Parliament.
