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The latest draconian austerity measures imposed on the Greek people can be a catalyst to bring about the end of the old system
A protestor against the vote for further austerity measures in the Greek parliament this week. Photograph: Aristidis Vafeiadakis//Zuma Press/Corbis
The passing of the third and most draconian tranche of austerity measures by the greek parliament on Wednesday was a pyrrhic victory. It marks the beginning of the end of the coalition government and offers a textbook example of the terminal decay of a system of power . The signs are everywhere. The procedure followed during the parliamentary debate violated both the rule of law and democracy. The one-clause bill incorporating a large number of unrelated measures amounted to several hundred pages but was given to MPs only the day before the debate, making detailed discussion impossible. New measures were added, one of which, removing parliament’s independent control of its business, created such a reaction that the government had to withdraw it immediately. Lire la suite
