Accuracy of Mitsotakis and dirty money | Liberal.gr

It wasn’t until after the pandemic that the phenomenon of price hikes became apparent around the world, and Alexis called it “Mitsotakis’ precision.” He kept saying this even as the invasion of Ukraine sent the entire planet into a new bout of inflation. Iconic as a logo but with a small structural problem.

In our interconnected world, the average citizen knows as well what happens in their neighborhood supermarket as they do in supermarkets in New York and Berlin. Quite simply, it was not possible to hide inflation in France or Canada, so that we here rush against Kyriakos as being solely responsible for our inflationary problems.

SYRIZA’s attitude (Mitsotakis to be exact) has been going on for over a year. They foolishly and passionately upheld it, despite the fact that common sense argued otherwise. Finally, something seemed to snap on them, so they turned the wheel slowly and subtly and admitted that some subtlety was imported. They did (and by Alexis’ own admission), but without pulling off the “Mitsotakis precision” tagline. Yes, but how exactly the hell is Kyriakos imported and owned? There is a logical gap here.

To fill this logical gap, they enlisted the famous obscenity. According to their new position, the state is the beneficiary of inflationary pressures from external factors, which are compounded by an explosion of domestic profiteering that Mitsotakis deliberately leaves unchecked and gluttonous. Which is admittedly “related” to the arguments from its predecessor, except that again something is wrong.

The first question is “Why does Mitsotakis not want to crack down on speculators?” By what logic, then, would the prime minister prefer to contrast the 5,000 customers of a supermarket than its owner? Would he trade one speculator vote for 5,000 votes of dissatisfied customers? It would be indulgently stupid, and I don’t think there is a Greek who would consider Kyriakos a fool.

The second question is very simple. If the explosion in prices is determined by the uncontrolled work of speculators who take advantage of the conscious absence of controls, then we must admit that from the 1980s until 2020 the controls in the country were so awful and effective that every sense of accuracy was lost on the face of the earth. Suddenly Mitsotakis came and set them up. The second sub-case is that honest Greeks suddenly became speculators in 2020, thus as an afterthought, but Mitsotakis did not anticipate their appearance and was not prepared to deal with them. Choose a fairy tale and get …