From card-carriers to technocrats

After the tragedy in Tempe, when two trains collided head-on, it is clear that the main issue of the pre-election period will not be economic policy, the coronavirus and the jump in prices due to the war in Ukraine. It will be the modernization of the state, which - with the exception of some services that were digitally transformed by Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis - remains antiquated, clientelistic and regressive. The state bears great responsibility for the unjust loss of 57 people in the accident.

But in order to modernize the state, the parties that have ruled Greece must first take responsibility for the lack of political will to change those ills, as well as their insistence on the clientelistic logic that aggravates the disintegration of the state, which is placing incompetent party candidates and card-carrying members in key positions.