Does the prime minister agree with Mr Polakis?

It is truly very, very difficult for someone to understand what is going on in Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis's head. The "proud" Cretan publicly embarrasses a man with disabilities with disturbing ease. The total lack of humanity - much less manners - is shocking. Such pettiness brings into question the moral compass of the Left.
Even when the minister brings to the fore real problems facing the Greek political system - often finding an audience among his voters and occasionally beyond them - his manner insults and appalls many in society at large, not just his committed adversaries.
In the case of Stelios Kymbouropoulos, the wheelchair-bound New Democracy MEP candidate whom Polakis appeared to accuse of using his disability to get a job in the public sector, the minister crossed every line.
On a human level the attack was unacceptable to the point of...

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