Greece

Comment: A lost year

The election victory of the radical leftist Syriza in Greece exactly a year ago, was a political earthquake for Europe. Spiros Moskovou draws a very critical balance of the twelve months with Alexis Tsipras.

After his surprisingly clear election victory, was tribune of the plebs Alexis Tsipras in record time along with the rechtpopulistischen Anel a new government. Tsipras promised that the end of austerity and the firm renegotiation of the rescue package with international lenders. A year after that, reigns still the realistic politicians from an Tsipras, the bankruptcies of Greece, the leftist “Revolution” but is put on hold. Tsipras is now the Supreme guardian of the third and most rigorous Sparpaketes, the Greece in the past five years has been imposed.

Greece’s problems are further grown

Is the political maturation process of the young Greek Prime Minister praiseworthy. The scandal is that he is his country enormous harm. Greece, unlike all the other weak countries of the European South will not recover wants made in 2015, two elections and a Referendum. All of these Urnengänge were as a Demonstration of steadfastness to the Weak, is meant as slaps against the supposedly dark forces of the EU and the IMF. The result is contradictory: Greece remains under international Kuratel, the voters of Syriza are disappointed, but Tsipras is still firmly in the saddle.

Spiros Moskovou forwards the Greek editors of the DW

The question is, how long the refined Prime Minister still has the Don Quixote is allowed to play. The economy is stagnating, unemployment is rampant, and large parts of society are impoverished. Blame is not the hated austerity measures, but the Failure of all the Greek governments of the past five years in the attempt, the country is not only a pro-forma basis to reform. This shows again the example of the long-overdue Reform of the social security system, a classic area of Greek politics for decades. No political force had the courage, the long priceless old pension system reform. The Syriza government is now by the lenders committed to the Problem. The protests of various groups in the past few days show how tough the resistance against the modernization.

But not only because of the great and difficult reform is likely to be the new year for Syriza and Tsipras tricky. The ruling majority in Parliament to just three Seats is based, is not safe in all circumstances. The government, for example, could the law for same-sex marriage only with the votes of the Opposition to adopt the coalition partner Anel voted against. After a series of Wahlniederlagen has become the conservative Nea Dimokratia party regrouped and, after a long fainting under their new Chairman Kyriakos Mitsotakis again a serious political force. According to the most recent surveys listed in the Nea Dimokratia party in the Wählergunst in the meantime, even a slight edge over Syriza.

Nimbus of the “moral Superiority” destroyed

In this moving political landscape could at least Syriza-based recently on the “moral” Superiority of the Left, which until recently never had a government that had formed, compared to the Altparteien reference. Since then, in recent weeks, a number of nepotism cases was known, it can no longer claim. As the Chairman of the Syriza youth was accused, he had some Relatives to Post in the public service gives, he gave a strange explanation: His grandfather and his grandmother could not have been in vain against the German occupation forces under the flag of the Communist resistance organization EAM fought, now would be the time for the reward of the grandchildren come! Syriza has a year ago, a new beginning in politics and society is promulgated. A year after that seems to be the new beginning lies on the other side of the Ancient to be. Only more grotesque.

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