The acclaimed actor and director Emilios Cheilakis, gave a long interview on the program «The Guest on the Seventh Day» at noon on Sunday, December 21.
The focus was mainly on politics, while he also mentioned the play «Mη σου τύχει!...» (Don't let it happen to you!), which is being staged again this year at the Athens Theater.
The warm welcome from the audience and the non-stop laughter led the beloved artist to star for the second year in the classic French comedy by Francis Veber, who also wrote the theatrical hits «The Dinner Game» and «The Cage of Mad Women.».
Speaking with Dimitris Tzivelekis, Emilios Cheilakis referred to Left and criticized him studious the manner in which political discourse is conducted by members of parliament and ministers both inside and outside parliament. As he said: «We cannot have politicians who defend with cries of rights that they themselves have deprived the people of.». He agreed that «Politics is nothing more than a service to the state and its citizens."». He found that «economies around the world have been dismantled in order to be subjugated, with Greece being the first and foremost example.» and on this basis noted that «A flower cannot bloom from a damaged fruit. He rendered it rise of the far right, in the strangulation of low income, saying characteristically that «In this way, he gives the gun and the knife to the hungry man.».
He also focused his criticism on the situation in the health sector, referring to «complete collapse of the concept of state healthcare. Public health is slowly becoming private.
He described it as New Democracy «center-right party, which has done everything that the center-right SYRIZA government has done from 2015 to 2019. With the difference that it did not need to implement memoranda.»
Emilios Cheilakis did not hesitate to respond to those who were quick to label him a supporter of SYRIZA. «I am truly leftist and internationalist based on necessity and my personal perception of the world.».
*As a professional actor, I want to open my own theater and for the audience to have the money to buy tickets.
«I can't sell tickets to people who can't afford to buy them. Nor can I pay the people who work on the show... It's that simple. This is economics, not capitalism. It means that what is produced as a product can be consumed...»
*Political parties should represent society and social classes at the political level. We cannot talk about a free economy when the relevant conditions do not exist. Because we operate in a free market, but state arbitration is necessary.
«Shipowners want an environment in which they can operate and run their ships. However, if they do not pay their employees properly so that they can buy fuel and other products that they transport with their ships, this will create a problem for the economy. The doctrine of laissez-faire liberalism, which rejects any state intervention in the economy, is the same as that applied by socialism. Today, we all operate in a free market, but with the difference that we need state arbitration. This is even more so when, as is the case today, prices are constantly rising and competition is not working.»
*In Greece, the Right does not govern on the basis of its ideology.
«If you ask a right-wing voter, they will tell you that Mitsotakis is not right-wing. New Democracy is in power because it is a center-right party, which has done everything that SYRIZA's center-right government did from 2015 to 2019. The difference is that it did not have to implement memoranda.»
*Artists today have no public voice – I reject the cheap political rhetoric I see on various television panels – Everyone talks as if they have absolute political knowledge. They refuse to question whether this is actually the case.
«It would be good if we all spoke on a political basis, not a partisan one... Let's do it, guys. Because people aren't concerned about SYRIZA's problems.»
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