The \u201cRefugee Community\u201d<\/b> on Alexandras Avenue<\/b> issued a statement celebrating its victory, following the \u201clegal recognition\u201d it received from the Mayor of Athens Chari Douka.<\/p>\n
And rightly so, because the resolution of the City of Athens<\/b> officially recognized it as a \u201cautonomous entity,\u201d \u201ccollective social entity,\u201d and \u201cequal partner with a decisive role\u201d <\/b>in any future restoration effort.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This would obviously be the case in Athens as well, with Haris Doukas as mayor. But the stance taken on this whole issue by PASOK,<\/b>, which has avoided taking a position and, in an attempt to downplay the issue, has let it be known that it distinguishes between \u201cpolitical\u201d and \u201clocal government\u201d matters. Of course, such a distinction would be valid if the mayor had not simply made a humanitarian appeal not to mourn a death resulting from the hunger strike<\/b>. But in this case, that is not the case. On the contrary, at the mayor\u2019s initiative , the squatters of public property<\/b> (i.e., the taxpayers\u2019) are playing a \u201cdecisive role.\u201d<\/p>\n
For what other interpretation could there be for a resolution that endorses the logic and actions of individuals who occupy and trample upon private property? Haris Doukas<\/b> is not so naive as to fail to understand that the Athens City Council\u2019s resolution sets a dangerous precedent for\u2014similar or equivalent\u2014throughout the country. In essence, the silence of Harilaou Trikoupi amounts to a de facto legitimization<\/b>. In a sense, PASOK and Haris Doukas are \u201cobliged\u201d to coexist with leftists and those on the left, since it was thanks to them that they won the municipal elections. After all, the resolution was introduced by the factions \u201cAthens NOW\u201d<\/b> (Doukas) and \u201cOpen City\u201d<\/b> (SYRIZA). If PASOK had condemned it\u2014as it should have\u2014it would have broken up this alliance in Athens, which serves as the model (despite Nikos Androulakis\u2019s denials) of \u201cprogressive\u201d governance. <\/p>\n
After all, a public condemnation of Haris Doukas by Nikos Androulakis over such a polarizing issue of law and order would spark an internal ideological war between the \u201ccenter-left rights-based\u201d wing and the \u201cinstitutional\u201d wing of PASOK.<\/b> <\/p>\n
Consequently, the leadership team \u201centrenched itself<\/b>\u201d behind the argument that the decision was a matter of local self-government, leaving the mayor to bear the political cost of his choice, so that PASOK <\/b>itself would not be forced to take an official position at the national level on whether squatters should play a decisive role in urban redevelopment projects. However, this, in any case has a negative impact on the voter base that PASOK should logically be targeting in order to stem the momentum shown in the polls by Alexis Tsipras\u2019s party<\/b><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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