“Chronograph of modern Greek travel for half a century”characterized the prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis the deceased Dionysis Savvopoulosduring the delivery of the Epikedio at the Exodus Procession in the Metropolis of Athens.

Mr. Mitsotakis said that “the legacy of Savvopoulos is not only a huge chapter of our artistic history but also part of our collective memory”. He added that Dionysis Savvopoulos kept pace with the life of the country in the joys while warning on the “uphills” always having his own point of view on things “open but never captive to dogmas”. He brought rock close to the popular and the popular and also to the social field, from the visionary ideas of the Left he met with the realism of liberal thought” he said and quoted lyrics from “Angelo Hexangelos” which – as he added – stood out because they are a direct and public discourse that bridges the world of Art with the pragmatism of politics.

“A proof where artistic sensibility becomes far more descriptive and far more powerful than any political argument”, added Mr. Mitsotakis, characterizing the deceased as “a heretic in his comments”, who “never denied the challenge of questioning”, and “a patriot who loved his country sincerely, speaking with the hoarse voice sometimes of the narrator and sometimes of the critic of every mistake, of the state or the citizen, so that his attitude turns into an invisible factor in the equation of Democracy”.

“It wasn’t just the public behavior of Dionysus” -said the prime minister- “who united in his person Art and politics”, pointing out that he never accepted public positions and offices, but he was “and the message of the unity and community of the Greeks that ran through his work and action”.