“Fifty-nine years ago, at dawn on April 21, officers who violated their oath overthrew the Republic, establishing a seven-year tyranny that left deep wounds in the country,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday in a post about the anniversary.
“Today, our country honors those who resisted the junta. And it replies to that painful experience by living through and capitalizing on the longest period of democratic continuity and progress in our modern history.
Despite the difficult international environment and the internal problems that come from the past, Greece is moving forward. Knowing well, however, that the public goods of Democracy and Parliamentarianism are never self-evident or a given. With the cheap populism of lies and the demagoguery of easy slogans constituting the modern threats against them.
To the dark anniversary, therefore, we contrast the optimistic horizon of a better life for all. On the path of unity and stability, of justice and development, of Europe, modernization and social cohesion. In an effort to overcome mistakes and failures. So that with knowledge, planning and courage we can build, day by day, the proud Greece of 2030,” Mitsotakis concluded in his post.
Source: ANA-MPA
