«Mr. Mitsotakis is dividing society and attacking young people.»

In politics, as in life, you proceed with principles, values, goals, and priorities. The education of young people, the police state, the suppression of rights, the absence control and accountability in every area of governmental responsibility it is signs of decline that characterize authoritarian governments around the world. And history has shown that those who choose to govern in this way in the 21st century are on the wrong track and do not last long.

However, what history has shown most clearly, and what should really concern us, is not whether the New Democracy, but that her views on security are the most classic recipe for a cocktail of violence and social division.

Ο Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his newly formed government had sent the message from the outset that they wanted to govern with the false doctrine of «law and order». And they made no secret of the fact that the primary objective of this doctrine was to target their predecessors, as well as all those social groups and classes that would strongly resist the government's plans, especially the young.

The Mitsotakis government appeared determined to push through its entire anti-reform package, with the assistance of repressive mechanisms and the Minister of Citizen Protection playing a key role.

It soon became apparent that it would not be limited to condemnation of the protests and of meetings but would seek the complete restoration of child welfare in all aspects of social life: from workspaces until the work of parliament and from the classrooms to the squares. With the outbreak of the pandemic, the government took on the mantle of protector. Along the way everyone they began to see that he was wearing his police uniform. 

Today, society realizes that the prime minister who emerged as the winner of the pandemic has lost completely monitoring the situation. Society realizes that the government, which promised two million vaccinations per month, is producing two scandals per week. And society is realizing that instead of the much-vaunted executive state preparing a credible plan in a climate of consensus, all it is preparing is announcements, so that the prime minister to shift responsibility onto citizens and his political opponents.

Ultimately, the government that is supposed to would work to ensure national unity and social cohesion, the only thing she seemed to care about was securing the right wing of her party. Why did the EL.AS. entered at dawn into the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Rector's Office to evacuate student occupation which had publicly announced that it would end at noon? On what basis is the government attempting to respond to legitimate social demands, such as the reopening of universities and their contribution to the fight against the pandemic?;

The answer always seems to be the same. The beating that police officers inflicted on citizens in the peaceful suburb of Nea Smyrni did not come out of the blue. There are political masterminds behind it.. Citizens realize that the only real and compact plan of the Mitsotakis government The solution to the country's multiple and complex problems is violence. Sunday afternoon in their neighborhood. And now citizens no longer tolerate violence as a response to their problems. Just as young people no longer tolerate the «violence that came out of paradise.». Students at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki will not tolerate it and all universities in the country expel them from their faculties.

Citizens are currently fighting for the greater good of health, with the overwhelming majority consistently adhering to the necessary restrictive measures. Carried away by its arrogance, the government understood that citizens had given their consent to have their democratic achievements, their social and labor rights, their constitutionally guaranteed rights, and with them their dignity, taken away from them. The government had many opportunities to say ’sorry, my mistake,« but instead it continues to threaten citizens. It is obvious that it will not last long, but the problem is that it must stop dividing society and attacking young people.

By Dora Avgeri