By ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ (GREEK) TÜRKÇE (TURKISH)
“A first official ‘yes’ from DIKO to Nikos Christodoulides.”
As Eleni Kastani used to say in “Ti psyhi tha paradoseis mori?”: Wow, I can’t believe it! [Translator’s note: reference to a popular Greek TV series]
“We no longer have the luxury of not cooperating in a government formation and letting others make decisions that have led us in recent years to economic and national impasses,” said Nikolas Papadopoulos last November – a few months before launching consultations to find a joint candidate with AKEL, whose government led us to economic impasses. Only to come six months later and support the Foreign Minister of the Government that has led us to national impasses.
Cheers and bottoms up. And we thought that it was EDEK that needed a doctor… [Translator’s note: reference to the fact EDEK’s founder Vassos Lyssarides was a doctor]
How did Marcos ‘leave-me-alone-all-of-you-to-live-freely-without-an-identity-anymore’ Kyprianou put it years ago at DIKO’s birthday bash? “We should carry on being a prudent force.” God help you.
Of course, this “prudent force” participated one way or another in almost all government formations, from 1977 onwards, to “control”, to “manage”, not to let others make decisions for us… You can see where this got us.
Honest question: does the DIKO president come up with these sophistries himself or are they the result of some productive thinking by a communications team? To mention one, “by supporting Christodoulides, we are going beyond the ordinary”.
You are drowning – you cannot cope by yourself, half your party is already working for the popular candidate, while many others rally around the purebred anti-bizonal candidate, the centrist parties with which you used to cooperate in the past are disintegrating – you have in front of you a lifeline that helps you avoid drowning, give a decent, if nothing else, performance and not reveal your nakedness, and you… you are going beyond the ordinary to grab onto it!
OK, this is indeed… princely!
“Averof Neophytou was in Varosha not for the elections, but for the homeland.” Oh, give us a break, Demetriou [Translator’s note: DISY spokesman Demetris Demetriou]. Look, there’s no shameful job. But perhaps some of them are?
Of course, we saw the snake’s trail of populism – it’s not as if we were surprised when he [Averof] said: “Rally, I am here for my homeland! Not for the elections!”
From that dramatic crescendo of February 2021 on alphanews.live: “Do you see my hand? It is as if it is your child’s hand. And they are offering you millions to agree that they cut off a finger. There is no parent who will agree, no matter how many millions they offer, to cut off a finger from their child’s hand. Nor will I ever agree for a piece of my homeland to be cut off and partitioned.”
AKEL is right then: “Varosha is not some election decoration that lends itself to populism.” But since when, in the house of the hanged man, do we talk about rope?
Nicos Anastasiades has remembered anew the “umbilical cords” with Greece – you will tell me it was a natural consequence, after the “we are the party of the Greeks” (!) comment by Harris Georgiades of the… “certain cultural ties”, during the recent parliamentary elections. So, Anastasiades, who in 2015 was calling on the other side to also cut off, just like us – that’s what he was saying! – “the umbilical cord with any other homeland” – now remembered, on the occasion of the ferry connection, the umbilical cord that connects us with Greece. Because, when you are addressing the naïve, the “umbilical cords” are not for all occasions, they are pulled out at the right moment, usually on the eve of elections. Like the two F-16s, which he decided to wear like a beautiful pair of tsarouchia [Translator’s note: shoes traditionally worn by Greek fighters], on the eve of the 2017 elections, even though he’d been in power since 2013 without previously deeming their arrival necessary.
Elefthera, 26.6.2022
Source: BREATHING EXERCISES
