Action that matters, not witch hunts

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis connected Tuesday urged authorities ministers to stay connected “alert” to “promptly antagonistic the fake quality spreading among nationalist opinion.” He spoke of a “rampage” of misinformation helium encountered upon returning from the United States to Athens, implicitly referring to the captious reactions of media outlets and governmental parties to the cancellation of his gathering with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

This is not the archetypal clip Mitsotakis has raised concerns astir fake quality and vested interests seeking to politically and communicatively undermine his government. In fact, such references person go the administration’s main communicative successful caller weeks, coinciding with stagnation successful sentiment polls and citizens’ debased expectations for the future. Notably, contempt a astir €3 cardinal bundle of measures announced astatine the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), the authorities recorded lone marginal canvass gains of 0.5% to 1.5%, approaching 30%.

However, accusations of vested interests seeking to bring down a authorities are often a hallmark of administrations trying to warrant mediocre performance. First, they constituent to outer interests; next, they onslaught the media; and finally, they target polling companies.

Unfortunately, aft six years successful power, alternatively of responding with factual argumentation initiatives to tackle citizens’ existent problems – rising supermarket prices, the terrible lodging shortage, and soaring vigor costs – the premier curate appears to similar manufacturing enemies and hunting witches.

The authorities has achieved important successes successful the system and development, creating 500,000 caller jobs, restoring a consciousness of normalcy, strengthening nationalist defense, and promoting reforms such arsenic integer governance and backstage universities. Yet it has fallen abbreviated connected issues such arsenic the wiretapping ungraded and the handling of the Tempe railway tragedy.

Instead of doing everything imaginable to combat corruption and the clientelist state and to afloat analyse the OPEKEPE workplace subsidies fiasco, the authorities has chopped witnesses from the parliamentary inquiry, called deceased erstwhile bureau heads to testify, and accused PASOK of transforming into a “red SYRIZA.”

Citizens, however, cull these governmental games. They request hard work, seriousness, and bold leadership.