by Christos Zabounis

In the reference book “Snobbery, the American version”, the academic Joseph Epstein repeats two key words twice on the same page: Apart and Above. This is the position of the snob in general, and specifically in politics. Reading the choice of the prime minister for the Presidency of the Republic, I discerned the above characteristics. In addition, it is a Greek paradox that the first class of the regime is determined by the second class, a snobbery again, which was imposed after the referendum for the Reigning Republic, when the political personnel realized that they did not want to have anyone above them and trimmed the powers of the President of the Republic. What is the country’s regime, after all? Presidential Republic, as stated in the Constitution, or something else? Of course, political analysts will be quick to emphasize that the “right” choice of Tasoulas was a matter of survival for the government in view of the advance of the right-wing New Democracy formations, but the “apart and above” of domestic power remains.