I was surprised to read that Aris Spiliotopoulos is joining the communication staff of Stefanos Kasselakis. It goes to say, he enters directly into the leadership group of Syriza. Well done baby. So some people, it is impossible not to participate in leadership groups, only there they discover themselves, only in such positions do they make use of their enormous qualifications. Any other humbler position is an insult to their immense abilities and immeasurable leadership skills.
Tell me, do you imagine Napoleon as a simple infantryman or Eleftherios Venizelos, Konstantinos Karamanlis and Andreas Papandreou, the deputies of the series? Of course not. Similarly, some others, like Aris Kaliora, only find the position that suits them, that they deserve, at the top of the pyramid. And in order not to be unfair to him, before he was in the Kasselakis communication staff, he had ideologically motivated his transfer.
He said he was “concerned with Syriza’s call” to stop the far-right’s advance in Europe and to put the brakes on the global elites’ strike on poverty and inequality. His point of view is very correct and well thought out, just like every other move he has made during his long political career which has always been full of successes and sealed by general popular acceptance. After all, Aris has always been a popular element, because it is not the people of Arachov and Mykonos who define the popularity of a politician. It is his innermost soul.
Anyway, it is the right of my friend Aris to join any staff he wishes and the right of Kasselakis to staff the office and his circle as he likes. There are people who started as right-wingers and became left-wingers, as well as people who started as left-wingers and ended up right-wingers. The problem is simply that the person who joins the Kasselakis party today knows what it once was but does not know exactly what it is that he is joining today. Small detail, you might say.
Nothing surprises me anymore. So not that either. Only those who have been saying for a long time that for some unseen reason, the Greek popular right feels much closer to the Syrizaic left (or that it is after all), than to the Mitsotaki center-right, are confirmed. With all that entails…