“59 years ago, at dawn on April 21, sworn officers crushed democracy, installing a seven-year tyranny that left deep wounds in the country,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a post on today’s anniversary.
“Today the country honours those who resisted the junta. And it responds to that painful experience by experiencing and making the most of the longest period of normality and progress in our modern history.
Despite the difficult international environment and the internal problems that come from the past, Greece is moving forward. But knowing full well that the goods of democracy and parliamentarianism are never taken for granted or for granted. With the cheap populism of lies and the demagoguery of easy slogans being the modern threats against them.
On this dark anniversary, then, we oppose the optimistic horizon of a better life for all. On the path of unity and stability. Of justice and development. Of Europe, modernisation and social cohesion. In an effort to overcome mistakes and failures. So that with knowledge, plan and courage we can build, day by day, the proud Greece of 2030″, Mr Mitsotakis concludes in his post.
