The lyricist, writer and columnist, Odysseus Ioannouseverely criticized the leaders of the parties of the Left, on the occasion of the absence of some of the funeral of Dionysis Savvopoulos.

With a title “Where were you yesterday my Left?”the creator notes that “yesterday was not the funeral of any “rightist” Savvopoulos. No supporter of Mitsotakis. Yesterday was the farewell to a Greece that once reached false peaks in its art. Farewell to the good version of ourselves”.

Odysseas Ioannou comments that in this ceremony “the official Left” was not “present”, writing with emphasis that “an absence has never made so much noise before. At least I don’t remember.”

In fact, clarifying that it is addressed exclusively to the institutional representatives of the Left, Ioannou concludes: “You shouldn’t have been absent. What were you afraid of? Does your presence legitimize an ideology or a government fiesta? You missed Savvopoulos’ funeral yesterday. You are missing from your lives. From our lives. Again. Again. Pity. We are running out of words. We run out of dreams. Darkness is coming from everywhere. Don’t be a part of it”.

His post in detail:

“Where were you yesterday my Left?

I’ve been trying for years not to write in anger. Let me wait. When you write in anger you become a bigot and, worse, you become unfair to people. I tried really hard not to write this text.

Yesterday, it was not the funeral of any “right-wing” Savvopoulos. No supporter of Mitsotakis. Yesterday was the farewell to a Greece that once reached false peaks in its art. Farewell to the good version of ourselves. Farewell to tenderness. It was the funeral of a man he once comforted.

And the official Left was absent. An absence has never made so much noise. At least I don’t remember.

How can you be absent from tenderness? From consolation? How do you do that? And most of all, who do you think you’re doing it to? Who are you punishing? We all told him about Savvopoulos when we disagreed on his political positions. We’re done, it’s over. And we don’t regret it.

But yesterday was not such a day. It was a wonderful, sunny day, which gave us an opportunity to appear, not magnanimous, (no one asked us to) but consistent with our feeling.

Not for everyone, I agree. Not for those who have seen their lives crushed by the neoliberal doctrines and had no desire to participate, seeing the heartbreaking picture with the representatives of the most immoral Government of the last decades having taken the first pew in the Metropolis. I hear that ‘sorry we don’t take songs as seriously as you do, and we don’t consider them more important than our lives that hit a wall every day.

Sorry that for this reason we do not have the heart to mourn someone who took their side in recent years.” They are right, there is no such thing as “feeling wrong”. And yes, the songs are not more important. I’m with them, one hundred percent.

Not for those, mostly younger people, who say “Nisafi anymore, you’ve weighed us down with the weight of your myths and we can’t breathe. Stop sanctifying and idealizing the past and your own history. Your myths mean nothing to us, we have every right not to mourn them.” With you. Truly, with you with a thousand! Of course, despite the fact that it is not our common History, it is History, do not cut yourself off from History, respect it, challenge us all, make your own. But ok, with you.

Not for those who don’t follow some mourning protocol, some normality worn. They don’t like bands and officials, they bid him farewell with a bottle of house wine and playing a CD of his.

I am referring to the representatives of the institutional Left. You shouldn’t have been missing. What were you afraid of? Does your presence legitimize an ideology or a government fiesta? You missed Savvopoulos’ funeral yesterday. You are missing from your lives. From our lives. Again. Again. Pity.

We are running out of words. We run out of dreams. Darkness is coming from everywhere. Don’t be a part of it.

update

Some of the comments that claim (not unfairly of course) that the institutional leaders do not represent themselves but people and ideologies and rightly did not attend because that way they would “validate” the supporters of a wretched policy, raised a question for me. If the Prime Minister dies will they go or not? Of course they will, we know that. With their presence, will they validate his policy, or does it not bother us that they will be forced by the “systemic” protocol of their institutional role?”.