{"id":3426,"date":"2026-04-30T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:24:00","slug":"pavlos-polakis-again-in-delirium-he-called-stavros-papastavrou-nikos-tsafos-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3426","title":{"rendered":"Pavlos Polakis (again) in delirium&#8230; He called Stavros Papastavrou-Nikos Tsafos &#8220;agents&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"0\"><b>Assault<\/b> with vulgar language, <b>Paul Polakis<\/b> launched an attack on <b>Stavros Papastavrou<\/b> and <b>Nikos Tsafos<\/b>, calling them &#8220;<b>agent<\/b>&#8220;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">At a time when the country is struggling to balance between international challenges and its energy reconstruction, <b>Paulos Polakis<\/b> proved for the umpteenth time that <b>the only &#8220;energy&#8221; he cares about is that produced by toxicity and politics&#8230; sidewalk politics<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">With a crescendo that would be the envy of the <b>darkest times of populism<\/b>, the SYRIZA MP turned the floor of Parliament into a <b>arena of insults<\/b>, launching an attack that lacks any trace of seriousness, logic and bourgeois civility against the leadership of <b>Ministry of Environment and Energy<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">It is truly admirable the ease with which <b>Mr Polakis hands out certificates&#8230; &#8220;agency&#8221;<\/b>, baptizing as national treason every effort to modernize and wean from the outdated models of the past. The now graphic references to &#8220;agents of interest&#8221; and threats of &#8220;payments by any means&#8221;, <b>not only do not convince anyone, but irreparably expose the party he represents<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Instead of arguments, <b>Mr Polakis deployed his now familiar vocabulary<\/b>, talking about &#8220;<b>shoals<\/b>&#8220;, &#8220;<b>black tar<\/b>&#8221; and &#8220;<b>paraphernalia<\/b>&#8220;, proving that <b>the distance between him and the institutional role of MP is growing geometrically<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">At the same time, the government, through <b>Stavros Papastavrou<\/b> and <b>Nikos Tsafou<\/b>, demonstrated a proverbial coolness, remaining <b>focused on the substance of policy and the technocratic facts that serious governance requires<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">The <b>piteful spectacle<\/b> of a politician <b>refusing to accept reality<\/b> and resorting to <b>cries<\/b> to cover up his lack of proposals is now the <b>norm and not the exception for Mr Polakis<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">As long as he is seeking&#8230; &#8220;<b>actors<\/b>&#8221; and fantasize <b>conspiracies<\/b>, the country will continue to <b>modernize<\/b>, leaving behind the <b>toxic dust<\/b> raised by those who <b>only learned to do well is to insult, threaten and backpedal<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pavlos Polakis attacked Stavros Papastavrou and Nikos Tsafos with vulgar terms, calling them &#8220;agents&#8221;.In a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3426","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\/3426","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=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}