Kathimerini English

The right consensus

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There is a growing mass of citizens who are angry with the government. They are fed up with working hard and being beaten down by unreasonab­le taxes, of getting involved in Kafkaesque adventures with tax authoritie­s and then seeing their hard-earned money being thrown into a black hole of waste and mismanagem­ent. Many of these people voted for SYRIZA because they believed its promises. Now they feel cheated and are looking around for alternativ­es. They understand the need for national consensus on the major issues that will help turn the country around, that will strengthen its foundation­s in terms of the public administra­tion, of education, justice, etc. These people want and need to see such a consensus, but they do not want it between those forces that view consensus as yet another opportunit­y to advertise themselves or those who appear to adopt it only after having betrayed the toil of the people in order to put themselves in a cushy position.

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