{"id":3298,"date":"2026-04-30T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:07:00","slug":"the-don-corleone-of-novartis-and-the-tax-storm-talks-about-the-mafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3298","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Don Corleone&#8221; of Novartis and the tax storm talks about the mafia&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We heard the prime minister of the <b>left <\/b>left, who came out with the slogan <b>&#8220;no house in the hands of a banker<\/b>&#8220;, and with the moral high ground that distinguished him delivered all houses into the hands of bankers, accuse New Democracy of governing on mafia terms! <\/p>\n<p>Remembering the early years of &#8220;actually existing populism&#8221; &#8211; when<b> the resourceful <\/b><b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b> <b>hadn&#8217;t found his Ithaca<\/b> &#8211; <b>I am addressing myself in Italian (since he was a candidate in Italy for the post of President of the European Commission as head of the Party of the European Left):  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>Gentile Signor Tsipras, Le rinfresco la memoria: chi era al potere quando la classe media veniva dissanguata da tasse assurde \u00e9s il patrimonio pubblico veniva svenduto per quasi un secolo?<\/b>&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> I would ask him in free translation if the honourable Alexis Tsipras could remind us (refresh our memory) who was ruling this country (which &#8220;mafia&#8221;) by plundering the middle class with unreasonable taxes and selling off the public property for 99 years? <\/p>\n<p>In yesterday&#8217;s last speech before the announcement of the new party in Heraklion, Crete, he denounced the government, calling it a &#8220;mafia government&#8221; and &#8220;kleptocracy&#8221; that is plaguing the country. <b>P<\/b><b>Always in Italian, because of the special relations Alexis Tsipras seems to have with Italy and his knowledge of the methods practiced by the mafia<\/b>, it is interesting to hear the prime minister of the Novartis plot talk about &#8220;comanda con metodi mafiosi&#8221; and &#8220;cleptocrazia&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p> <b>Hoping that this time New Democracy will not do him the favour of confronting him institutionally and giving him a pardon like in 2019<\/b> when he gave him a pardon card and left us with the question: why there was no inquiry into the referendum, Novartis, TV licenses?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing else, because we are holding inquiries for a quick buck and no one talks about the big buck. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    We heard the prime minister of leftist plunder, who came out with the slogan &#8220;no house in the hands of a banker&#8221;, and with the moral high ground &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","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\/3298","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=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}