How is this possible?
For one thing he is unelected, do Greek’s now want to get rid of democracy?
And secondly Papademos has been a key player, indirectly or directly, that has led Greece to the problems it has today.
To recap on Papademos.
Papademos was governor of the Greek Central Bank when Greece entered the Euro.
When Greece entered the Euro it was because the Greek public finances has been fraudulently put together, a fact recognised by most people including Sarkozy.
This “cooking” of the books is what has led directly to Greece being able to run-up unserviceable debts.
What Papademos’s involvement was in the cooking of the books I do not know. But what is known is that Papademos was overseeing the Greek Economy until May of 2002. And the Euro started circulating in Greece in January of 2002.
So to summarise. The finances of the Greek state were manipulated while Papademos was overseeing the Greek economy/currency in his role as governor of the Greek Central Bank.
But Papademos’s direct or indirect involvement does not end there.
After Greece had joined the Euro, with false economic figures, Papademos has then taken up a new post as Vice President of the European Central Bank, the ECB.
Again the ECB is supposed to manage the Euro currency and control the supply of Euros in the Euozone. From May 2002 until December 2010 Papademos has been observing, measuring, analysing and generally involved in the management of the Euro in the Greek economy, but despite his postion of power, he has failed to highlight or notice the fraudulent figures that Greece used to get into the Eurozone.
And during this time Papademos has also been overseeing the Euro while the Greek government has been running up these massive debts.
Papademos’s ignorance, deliberate or otherwise, has directly led to the Greek government running up unserviceable debts resulting in the Greek economy going into a depression.
And despite Papademos’s alleged role as manager of the Drachma immediately prior to Greece’s entry in the Eurozone and despite Papademos’s alleged role as a manager of the Euro currency, Greeks, for some unknown reason, think he is an acceptable choice given is record of financial management over the past 20 years.
Why is Papademos an acceptable Prime Minister to Greeks given that he has been involved in the management team that has led Greece into its deepest depression in recent memory?
Do Greeks understand what Papademos has been doing for the past 20 years or do Greeks know what Papademos has been doing but are simply hoping that things will be different this time?
I would love to know the answer and to hear your opinions.
My answer will be a bit long but please if you can, post a reply.
How did the Greeks vote on this or expressed their opinion can you tell us? By “polls” on mainstream private media?
The ignorant Greeks were never asked neither if they like or if they want Papademou,
or any of the rest of the old criminals in the last few years really.
When you say that “Athens news”, which is Greek news in English, carried an article that says 3 out of 5 Greeks approve Papademou, according to a poll made by “The Kethimerini”, are you really implying that this is also reality? Just because you read it in private media? Tacky fake pollsters?
You can see on videos recorded during real events, that is historical evidence, protests of 100000 people in a country of 11 million, gathering around the parliament, and surely you can see in there that a lot are actually trying to get in. Trying much more than any current North European of North American movement dedicated to stopping the wars in the Middle east, for example.
Calling an article “ignorant Greeks” is very racist from any point of view. I don’t understand really how people in 2012 can actually do this.
On the other hand, to be a bit satirical, an article called “quite a lot of ignorant British” or “quite a lot of ignorant Americans” would be very realistic, compared to the total ignorance and denial towards the destructions their states are committing in the Middle East or in Africa or in Europe occasionally. Destructions often accompanied by the looting of nations by a bunch of criminals.
Notice that I don’t call the WHOLE of the British or the US nation ignorant. Just a big part of it. And that I do based on reality… not TV or newspaper or magazine polls.
To put it from a different perspective, did you know that 80% of illegal immigration to Europe goes through Greece? Did you know that the majority of these people come from countries like Pakistan or Afghanistan where they have lost their properties and lives of friends and relatives in the war?
Did you know that around 35000 illegal immigrants end up in Greece every year lately? And they are welcome though mate. We wish we didn’t have our problems and could provide them with all the best.
But in today’s conditions most of the times they end up hanging around in a country in poverty wishing they had never left their country in the first place.
And the biggest irony is that we also hear criticism from western “charity” groups etc that illegal immigrants are mistreated in Greece. The people that their countries are bombarding.
These people are victims of the West’s war machine, and at least most of the times get a basic medical assistance by mainly individuals that manage to grab an ambulance from the state for a day, or by the local branch of those called “doctors without borders” or get some free food from a church.
Do your criticism. Do your auto-criticism. Your self-criticism. Get properly informed about the things you support, and don’t fall in racist traps. Unless you like it. That changes the whole thing.
Hi, thanks for the response. I agree with everything that you say. Unless you call me a racist at any point, I don’t agree with that.
About the title. I wanted to be controversial to create a reaction and to get people to read up on the guy.
So did I mean all Greeks are ignorant? No, only the ones who approve of Papademos. Why? Because they are not aware of the background of their own prime minister.