As in 2019, now on the same show, Kyriakos Mitsotakis made sure to thrill his audience with references to the mental problems and family difficulties he faced from time to time with his wife. After all, with the modesty that distinguishes him, since then he had explained the reasons why he prefers this type of interview: “In the United States, it is not understood that a candidate for president or even an acting president does not go through some late night show”. “But in this type of interview, the interviewee risks exposing himself where he does not imagine.
For reasons that are perhaps transparent, Mr. Mitsotakis made sure to give his main pre-election interview the day before yesterday on ANT1’s “The 2Night Show.” He perhaps considered the hospitality of Grigoris Arnautoglou magical, who had invited him before the 2019 elections, with a similar theme.
And then, as now, he made sure to thrill his audience with references to the mental problems and family difficulties he faced at times with his wife. After all, with the modesty that distinguishes him, since then he had explained the reasons why he prefers this type of interview: “In the United States, it is not understood that a candidate for president or even an acting president should not go through some late night show”. “.
But in this type of interview, the interviewee risks exposing himself where he does not imagine. I remember that in that 2019 interview, Arnautoglou asked him if he had a tattoo and Mr. Mitsotakis replied that he is in negotiation with his son, who had such a thought. And what was the solution? “I advised him, if he wants to do it, to experiment in a place that is not very visible and then see. From there”.
This position sums up the personal philosophy of the outgoing prime minister. We tried, but secretly. And if they take us lightly, we throw it at Dimitriadis.
But even in yesterday’s interview, he missed real “pearls”:
1. About the “staff status”
“And when we talk about a staff state, which has been talked about a lot, that’s exactly what I mean. A strong center in the Maximus palace, which can coordinate, hold ministers accountable, based on results and correct the direction, whenever it detects that there are weaknesses or delays”.
This is a blunt admission that the infamous “staff state” is your personal team (Dimitriadis, Kontoleon, Gerapetritis) that controls the ministers and determines government policy. What cabinet?
2. Due to salary increases
Contrary to what he often says, in his evening confession, Mr. Mitsotakis admits to the impoverishment of a large percentage of workers: “I’ll raise wages, it’s the next big challenge. Salaries are low today in the country and, to be precise, they create a big problem for a large part of the Greek people.” Grigoris Arnautoglou asks him: “How can you do it, achieve this?” And the answer of Kyriakos Mitsotakis : “Reducing unemployment, bringing investment and being able to increase the power of the worker, who will be able to demand better wages, once unemployment decreases.”
In other words, the wage increases will come from the struggles of the workers, who will achieve the increase. Therefore, the workers themselves are responsible for the low wages, who do not demand more! Not even Marie Antoinette could have put it more graphically.
3. Attract young people to politics
In both the 2019 interview and the day before yesterday, Mr. Mitsotakis made sure to talk about the issue of youth participation in politics. Only now he is saying the exact opposite of what he was saying in 2019. He then encouraged this effort and was proud to attract young people to politics, presenting it as a pillar of his party program: “Now that I am trying to convince people outside of politics, to engage with the public – we convinced a lot of young people to run for ND and we may have to convince others afterwards – the argument I use is if you have the opportunity to participate and you don’t , then you have no right to criticize.”
This is what he said in 2019. Now, in the same program, he says the opposite: “The only thing I would say to any young guy who wanted to get into politics, I would only give him one piece of advice: make sure you have worked first. Have you to really stick, to know what it means to make a living, to know what it means to have an employer and to be consistent with your obligations. And then after you have a career, think again if you want to deal with the public.”
How is this conversion of Mr. Mitsotakis explained?
A first response is that with the last statement he wanted to turn a blind eye to his followers, who imagine – after so many years of brainwashing – that the person who worked in the business sector, before dedicating himself to politics, was himself. So this is the royal path.
Except that, as we have repeated in these columns, his career in the private sector has been a real black hole on his resume. Not only because he was appointed to positions in the broader private and public sector, with only his family connections as a resource, but also because his departure from the companies to which he had been appointed and his transition into politics was made under the weight of a business scandal, which later brought him to the brink of scrutiny for criminal offences.
The second explanation is that today Mr. Mitsotakis wants to avoid youth participation in politics as much as possible. He knows more than anyone that his political career in recent years has been valued with black overtones by the vast majority of young people.
That is why the only solution he sees is to close the path of the young to the common people. Unfortunately for him, those who have attempted something similar in the past have been known to pay dearly for it.