{"id":1382,"date":"2026-04-19T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2026-04-19T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:45:00","slug":"pavlos-marinakis-for-the-buffets-old-practices-do-not-end-with-fine-words-but-with-policies-that-work-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1382","title":{"rendered":"Pavlos Marinakis for the buffets: Old practices do not end with fine words, but with policies that work (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"59\" data-end=\"421\"> The issue of bribes remains one of the most deeply rooted pathologies of Greek society and political life as Pavlos Marinakis says in video on Facebook. <\/p>\n<p data-end=\"421\" data-start=\"59\">As he underlines, old practices do not end with fine words but with <b>politics<\/b> that have a real effect. For years the <b>opposition<\/b> has been<b> consumed<\/b> in<b> proclamations<\/b> without any real contribution to changes that touch the daily lives of citizens. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"423\" data-end=\"729\">How many people have not had to use means to secure a bed in a <b>medical facility<\/b> or to expedite the process of getting a <b>synod<\/b>? How many have not sought intervention to <b>write off a ticket<\/b> or settle cases that should normally be run transparently and equitably? <\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"> <b>The opposition has discovered the wheel and fed us in post-revolution Greece with words<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"731\" data-end=\"1129\"> The need for a state that works without dependencies is highlighted through <b>reforms<\/b> such as the <b>digital state<\/b>changes in <b>education<\/b>, <b>transfers of students<\/b> and the management of agricultural subsidies through <b>OPEKEPE<\/b>. The question is how many of these changes were supported in practice by the opposition parties and how much they contributed to effectively addressing the buffers. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &lt;\/html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    The issue of bribes remains one of the most deeply rooted pathologies of Greek society and political life, as Pavlos &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","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\/1382","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=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}