- Translation of Article written by Nikos Mwraitis -
http://www.altsantiri.gr/gnwmes/nikos-moraΐtis-prosexe-alexi/
Be careful, Alexis
Because the tears that you managed to held yesterday in Syntagma Square, I was also struggling not to shed, watching you on TV.
Because while you were holding hands with the other European Left leaders and the speakers were playing the Bella Ciao, I felt that childhood memory igniting inside me, all the agony of my grandparents, my parents, my friends, the poor man who I never saw , the refugee who I never met, for a more just world.
Be careful, Alexis, because tomorrow you will not hold in your hands one vote but the most sensitive thing in the world: the remnants of a dream.
The dreams that you served them for six months fighting during the negotiation, you crushed them when you signed the Memorandum, we saw you falling and getting up again, measuring your wounds, we also fell and got up again, we also measured our own wounds, packed up and we healed our downtrodden dreams and that we give them now back to you once again. Knowing your mistakes while acknowledging your purity.
Be careful, Alexis, it is not like in 25th January now, because this time the hope of abundance is absent. This time we give you our broken parts . Our wounds. From our remanence we give you our vote tomorrow, not from our surplus. If a politician spent the surplus of the people, it can be forgiven. If he spends the remanence, it is the end.
Be careful, Alexis, because we have now there is no room for mistakes. Not to be dazzled by the cosmopolitan snob persona of Yani (with one n), nor to show off another insolent spoiled "lady" because she is the daughter of an ex president.
We know that this is not your second chance. The first one it is, that they tried like crazy to take it away from you. It is the first and the last one.
Here people are in pieces. People lost because of the old political system, people that is capable of forgiving you even signing the memorandum. if you work for their benefit.
Be careful, Alexis, because some things do not need money. And mostly for those things you are elected tomorrow. For these things that do not require money but political will, such as corruption.
They will "suck" you again. They will pretend they are your friends and then at the right moment they will come and bite you like snakes - for you partner, the school of your children, your father, for whatever they want. They are people of corruption, of the dirty underground business. If you don't place them where they belong, you will see them super strong, to throw new mud from the fan, playing again with their pollsters, throwing you out of government, because this is what they know to do: dealing with the political system by raising and lowering corrupted subjects.
Tomorrow, it will be the first time that the people, in the six years of crisis, will reelect a prime minister, with an empty pocket but regardless the empty pocket.
It is a big honour, and a big responsibility. You have all the reasons to shed a tear. And the left who " regardless of 50 years of suffering and persecution" have every reason to cry. If you don't protect safeguard this collective tear, then it is not that a government would be lost, two years or three, but the gaze of these people that saw this land and this world with different eyes.
http://www.altsantiri.gr/gnwmes/nikos-moraΐtis-prosexe-alexi/
Be careful, Alexis
Because the tears that you managed to held yesterday in Syntagma Square, I was also struggling not to shed, watching you on TV.
Because while you were holding hands with the other European Left leaders and the speakers were playing the Bella Ciao, I felt that childhood memory igniting inside me, all the agony of my grandparents, my parents, my friends, the poor man who I never saw , the refugee who I never met, for a more just world.
Be careful, Alexis, because tomorrow you will not hold in your hands one vote but the most sensitive thing in the world: the remnants of a dream.
The dreams that you served them for six months fighting during the negotiation, you crushed them when you signed the Memorandum, we saw you falling and getting up again, measuring your wounds, we also fell and got up again, we also measured our own wounds, packed up and we healed our downtrodden dreams and that we give them now back to you once again. Knowing your mistakes while acknowledging your purity.
Be careful, Alexis, it is not like in 25th January now, because this time the hope of abundance is absent. This time we give you our broken parts . Our wounds. From our remanence we give you our vote tomorrow, not from our surplus. If a politician spent the surplus of the people, it can be forgiven. If he spends the remanence, it is the end.
Be careful, Alexis, because we have now there is no room for mistakes. Not to be dazzled by the cosmopolitan snob persona of Yani (with one n), nor to show off another insolent spoiled "lady" because she is the daughter of an ex president.
We know that this is not your second chance. The first one it is, that they tried like crazy to take it away from you. It is the first and the last one.
Here people are in pieces. People lost because of the old political system, people that is capable of forgiving you even signing the memorandum. if you work for their benefit.
Be careful, Alexis, because some things do not need money. And mostly for those things you are elected tomorrow. For these things that do not require money but political will, such as corruption.
They will "suck" you again. They will pretend they are your friends and then at the right moment they will come and bite you like snakes - for you partner, the school of your children, your father, for whatever they want. They are people of corruption, of the dirty underground business. If you don't place them where they belong, you will see them super strong, to throw new mud from the fan, playing again with their pollsters, throwing you out of government, because this is what they know to do: dealing with the political system by raising and lowering corrupted subjects.
Tomorrow, it will be the first time that the people, in the six years of crisis, will reelect a prime minister, with an empty pocket but regardless the empty pocket.
It is a big honour, and a big responsibility. You have all the reasons to shed a tear. And the left who " regardless of 50 years of suffering and persecution" have every reason to cry. If you don't protect safeguard this collective tear, then it is not that a government would be lost, two years or three, but the gaze of these people that saw this land and this world with different eyes.