Die Nea Dimokratia hat den Nach-Diktatur-Konsens aufgekündigt und findet durch die
Pandemie günstige Umstände für eine Politik zur Schaffung eines neuen Mainstreams. Pavlos Roufos analysiert die herrschende Politik in Hellas.
„Was die aktuelle Situation jedoch zeigt, ist, dass die ständigen Sparmaßnahmen keine vorübergehende Lösung waren. Sie sind hier, um zu bleiben.“
Von Pavlos Roufos, brooklynrail.org, April 2021:
„Governing the Ungovernable
“Your days are over.” This is what Greek policemen shouted at a group of lawyers who were being (illegally) prevented from getting access to their clients, who had themselves been (illegally) detained for attempting to start a demonstration which, in a typical indication of the government’s recent disregard for its own authoritarian laws, had not been officially declared illegal. This particular exchange, which took place outside the central headquarters of the police in Athens, on March 6, 2021, could have passed unnoticed. The structural role of the police is such, after all, that a wide spectrum of similar attitudes diachronically accompanies the exercise of the “monopoly of legitimate violence.” If there is something that renders it noteworthy, however, it is the fact that in the contemporary context, such moments perfectly capture an increasingly common form of governance of an ungovernable world.“
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