It is obvious that the party of Maria Karystianou called “Hope for Democracy” is bordering on the picturesque.
The statements of the new party’s executives cannot be characterized otherwise. Statements that are out of place and show a lot about the seriousness of the project and the orientation of their political positions.
Starting with Maria Karystianou herself, who proceeded to a great impropriety: during her speech on the founding of the party, she claimed that she felt that the souls lost in Tempe were with her, culminating in the instrumentalization of the accident for political reasons.
Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos, who is one of the executives who were among the first to sign the founding declaration of Maria Karystianou’s party, said they would demand that Turkey give us… Imbros and Tenedos. Let’s not forget Istanbul and then North Epirus.
The same executive from the Stamatis Zacharou show also brought up German reparations, saying that we can confiscate… German public property to force Germany to give us the reparations, which he estimated at 1 trillion euros. Does this remind you of Alexis Tsipras of 2015 with the dulcimers?
Carstianou as Bouboulina
But the diamonds of Maria Carstianou supporters don’t stop there. Actor Nikos Ziagas, who is part of the party, called Maria Karystianou a… modern day Bouboulina who took up her sword to take on the system.
When they also invoke revolutionary heroes and compare them to a woman who took advantage of an accident to make a party, then the situation becomes not only graphic but also sad.
Of course, there were other lines at the new party’s rally in Thessaloniki. For example, expressions such as “Those who committed crimes will pay, the time is coming”, “a Maria does not bring spring. Spring will come when we all become Marys”, “the economic crisis was deliberate and made up” and other revolutionary things we haven’t heard since 2015. Of course, the audience was made up of Victory Party cadres, anti-vaccinationists, all kinds of conspiracy theorists and religionists, so nothing that was heard made an impression on us.
Epstein and the drachma
We also had an interesting interview with Professor Maria Negreponi-Delivani, who is involved in the party’s economic program: Although she had previously declared herself in favour of a return to the drachma, she ruled out such a scenario but defended her position by saying that even Epstein had declared that Greece’s national currency was better.
She even said on the Stamatis Zacharou show that we will be… shaken up on taxes, calling for a tax of up to 60% on high incomes.
However, Maria Karystianou’s event may not have gone as well as her staff would have liked, but it was certainly the graphicness that stole the show.
