What ex-minister Avgenakis reminded us

Why shouldn't a minister who blackmails people whose homes and businesses have been destroyed by floods, saying that they won't get any compensation unless they vote "correctly" in the local elections (as Lefteris Avgenakis did in Thessaly in the fall of 2023), go on to physically bully an employee who won't let him break the rules (as he did last week at Athens Airport)?

He will because he believes that his immunity from prosecution as a member of Parliament is a guarantee that he'll also skate away from criminal action, that his party is hospitable to autocratic and antisocial personalities like he is, and that its voters are accustomed to and tolerant of such delinquent behavior.

Avgenakis was ousted from ruling New Democracy's Parliamentary Group (though not from the party itself!) because a video was made public showing him physically assaulting an airline clerk...