The revolutionaries of the era are raising the banner against the cartels, though they don\u2019t name names or provide addresses.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s the cartels\u2019 fault”\u2014to be precise, this is the opposition\u2019s constant refrain both inside and outside parliament. PASOK and its president Nikos Androulakis<\/b>, as do other parties, such as SYRIZA, and now ELAS led by Alexis Tsipras.<\/b><\/p>\n
His spokesperson said as much on Monday. They\u2019ll find the money for everything they\u2019re promising by tackling corruption\u2014in the spirit of the good old and ever-relevant \u201cthere is money\u201d by George Papandreou<\/b>\u2014and by tackling cartels. <\/p>\n
But what are these cartels? Where are they? Are there any names, any companies hiding behind them? Because neither the revolutionaries of the Left nor those of the\u2014as they claim\u2014center-left are naming names or saying anything at all. <\/b><\/p>\n
Not a single name\u2014or, logically, since we\u2019re talking about\u2026 cartels, more than one name\u2014has been mentioned by the contenders for the prime minister\u2019s office, even by a single vote. No company operating under a cartel-like structure has been mentioned, so that even the advocates of a purge would be called upon to present the evidence they have. <\/p>\n
Because when someone talks about a cartel, they logically have the data to prove that a market operates on that basis. It\u2019s one thing to infer this and another to confirm it\u2014and thereby enable the relevant authorities to intervene using the legal means at their disposal.<\/p>\n
The fairy tale about vested interests, evil lenders, and all that was sold a few years ago.<\/b> To sell it again, they need the necessary villain. It\u2019s mainly up to those who bring this up in discussions to say who that dragon is\u2014with names and addresses\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The revolutionaries of our time are raising the banner against the cartels, but they don’t name names or give addresses.
\nThe cartels are to blame, to be precise …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}