His prime minister appears | Dawn

Eit has become predictable, tedious and above all unreliable. We are used to him by nown role of the visitor. We have already learned by heart his rants and guffaws, the crossing of his arms and the alleged gnashing of teeth at speculators. He is, you see, the prime minister of appearances and staged interventions. He is the prime minister of image, impressions and that’s it. Because when the camera rolls and the lights go out, it all comes back to harsh reality. Where exactness, taxes and meager wages bring families and households to their knees. Where the prime minister will never be, since the role they have written for him is only for staged visits and TV shows. Like yesterday’s televised visit to a supermarket in the capital, where he was taken to play the patron saint of societys announcing the small price cut on seven – yes, 7 – products, regardless of the fact that the prices of those products had more than doubled in the last two years and their reductions are just a drop in the ocean of precision that drowns the financially weak.

Eso it seems the prime minister, together with his guard, made his televised passage through a supermarket empty of citizens to convince us that he cares and is interested in the hoarseness of accuracy that has crushed the citizens, effectively cutting a crumb from the already scary prices of some products. And until there. Because there is no talk of pro-popular and meaningful interventions. Not a word from the prime minister seems to be about rudimentary measures that will relieve the popular strata. Not a word about reducing VAT and special taxes on fuel and energy.