Archive note: This text comes from the old archive of Nomika Epilekta and is carefully preserved for historical and informational reading.

If we imagine the parliament in our country as a corporation with the parties as shareholders, we can explain the unbelievable things that happen.

Rarely does a Greek corporation, or any business, operate without eventually dissolving because of the ceaseless conflicts of its shareholders. Usually the shareholders end up in court, where they spend the rest of their lives trying to tear each other apart. The smarter ones have channeled the corporate wealth and the kickbacks abroad or into safe hiding places, for their old age...

We are living something similar now as we watch the ceaseless party disputes. The prime minister clashes with the vice-president of the government. The vice-president attacks the prime minister. The leader of the main opposition attacks the prime minister and at the same time turns against other party leaders, who in turn turn against one another, and all together attack the prime minister, the vice-president, the ministers and whomever else they locate.

Every party factor or plant considers it his highest duty to disagree with all the others, and the others are in permanent and continuous war with anyone who does not belong to their party or faction.

It is a rule without exception that the sated people who practice the profession of politician are in incurable political agitation.

They use every insult that comes to mind, which they characterize as criticism of opponents. They offend one another and show that they are able to go to extremes, shouting, pushing, slandering and distorting.

The same things happen inside offices and behind the walls of corporations, where shareholders spend their strength and their lives trying to eliminate one another. The goal is to seize power in the company by every means.

Thus both businesses and our country are dissolved, following a common course and the same fate. They end in confusion, stoppage of production, involvement of third parties in internal affairs, both corporate and state affairs, mutual accusations by the shareholders and participants in irrationality, and in the end they admire their achievements, namely bankruptcy, destruction and ruin, not of themselves but of the citizens.

Businesses and the country are conquered by rational third parties. Most of the time, however, businesses cease to exist, while we say the country is in “crisis,” with citizens dying not only of shame.

Within this framework we live the schizophrenia and the daily mockery. The prime minister resigns and receives a vote of confidence in order to depart. Government members of parliament disagree with their leader and vote for him, agreeing.

The leader of the second party consents with the government and at the same time disagrees, explaining that he distinguishes consent from agreement. Agreement is one thing and consent another. He prefers the first and will consider the kind of preference.

The heads of the third party demand a change of the sociopolitical system without delay.

The fourth party agrees with the sixth and the seventh with the fifth, but all together they disagree because they are deliberating on what they will agree to.

Most leaders, above all the shepherd of the second party, ask their sheep-followers to shout incessantly for elections, without undertaking to pay the electoral bill of millions.

They will finance the elections, shamelessly, from the borrowed money of foreigners. Who cares about the taxes that the average helpless inhabitant of our country is forced to pay in order to repay the lenders who have grown angry.

What will happen in our case? Will the shareholders of politics agree, consent and reach understanding on the fate of the country? Will there be a convergence of the leaders when there is a convergence of the planets?

When will the opposition leader with the wrinkled forehead decide on what he disagrees with and on how much he will agree, before presenting his disagreements? Whom do the other chiefs, leaders and tribal heads want as prime minister?

Should the retired professor of constitutional law become prime minister, who, after supporting the governments that indebted the country, teaches on all channels that “the entire loan system is in no way legitimized,” a new repeated statement of 05.11.2011? So that he may draw money with his wisdom and pay the politicians and state employees...

Article 1 paragraph 1 of the Constitution declares that the foundation of the political system is popular sovereignty. It is not the sovereignty of party leaders, nor of corporations.

Popular sovereignty does not exist without consent and agreement among citizens so that intelligent and immediate solutions may be found for the problems of the economy and society.

The time has come to tell the party leaders, who quarrel over chairs and powers, that they are fighting in someone else’s barn. Let them go back where they came from. To their real homelands. To the places where they studied and acquired what they came to apply on our backs.

E. Papadakis