Scapegoats Found?
The BBC reports that Lucas Papademos named as new Greek prime minister. He was the guy who guided Greece through the conversion from the dracma to the euro, and is a former vice president of the European Central Bank. What he isn’t is a member of parliament. I don’t know how that works without being fully aware of the Greek constitution, which I’m not. It is not exactly usual for the leader of democracy to be someone no one has voted for.
It looks like Italy is covering that problem by having the Italian president appoint the apparent choice, Mario Monti, a ‘senator for life’. Monti is an economist and former minister in the European Union.
It looks like all of the politicians are hiding from the responsibility of what they know is going to happen.
I would hope that the people decide it is time to dump all of the incumbents, and go for something new after what the politicians have done to them.
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It is not exactly usual for the leader of democracy to be someone no one has voted for.
Indeed. Crap, it isn’t exactly usual for the leader of a *dictatorship* to be someone no one has voted for. Remember, Saddam Hussein was elected President of Iraq multiple times, with 97% of the vote, even ;). And let’s not forget that the Shrubbery was electorated twice in a row, and undoubtedly got at least 20% of the vote both times though it’s hard to tell, given the number of electronic touchscreen voting machines involved both times :twisted:.
– Badtux the Tongue-in-beak Penguin
It looks like they are trying the ‘technocrats’ dodge – we must be doing the right things because the guy in charge is ‘an expert’.
It seems to me that the basic problems we are seeing were caused by bankers and ‘economists’, so I doubt they are the best people to solve them.