In 2015 Irini Agapidakis angry. He was very angry. And the anger on the keyboard also took out. Eight years later, his then angry messages, few but highly charged, are repeated over and over again in an endless cycle of attacks that returns every time he does something new. Her placement as head of her state voting N.D. it could not produce any other effect. Irini Agapidaki is a troll?

“In 2015, I did not hold any government positions. I was a citizen and everything I wrote was written in my name. I think trolls are generally anonymous. And I reacted to what was happening in my country and to the personal devastation that I experienced. No one can know the personal state of each. When you are in a situation where you are struggling to feed yourself and help your people and someone comes and kicks you like this because his political immaturity is preventing him from doing the right thing for the country because he has turned against the citizens, and then against the government … I reacted like this, with “We stay in Europe”, with harsh words on social networks. I didn’t throw Molotov cocktails, I didn’t do interventions like the Rubicon.

what exactly is the problem?: What did I sharply write and that I was at the demonstrations? Excuse me, what was I supposed to do? Suffer gracefully? Sitting like an elegant lady and saying “haha, very nice! Continue?”.

Ms. Agapidaki collaborated at the School of Medicine with the Laboratory of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Biostatistics. “Because of what happened, with the memorandum, with the referendum, with all of that, there was a freeze on a number of things related to Europe, which cost a lot of us our jobs,” he says, explaining what prompted her reaction.

Born in Palaikastro, a village in northeast Crete, she has come a long way to vote for the Kingdom of N.D. Coming from a large family, with many financial difficulties and hardships, she turned to reading thanks to her mother’s constant guidance in this direction. Admission to the university, where he studied psychology, did not alleviate the situation. “Working in parallel with my studies, at two or three jobs, I did everything: from a cashier in a supermarket, and this is one of the most difficult professions, to a cleaner in a repair shop, a waitress, of course, like most students, in hotels. in the summer in two shifts from six in the morning to eleven in the evening, because otherwise there would not be enough money to endure the winter … ”. Perhaps this explains why she delayed her graduation, which is mocked on the internet as evidence of a lack of perfection.

After the hit of 2015, her search for livelihood took her to Cyprus, where she worked at the English-speaking European University as a public health lecturer. In the same place in 2019, she found an offer to deal with the urgent problem of unaccompanied minors. “There was an initiative of Apostolos Doxiadis for the unaccompanied, I followed this issue, I did not know it deeply, but I wrote about it. When the offer was made to me to take part, I was very hesitant for two reasons: I had just started my career in Cyprus with great difficulties, and secondly, since my main studies are related to psychology, I was aware of the psychic trauma that arises from for taking part in such a difficult issue. After much deliberation, I decided to agree and have not regretted it for a second.”

“What was I supposed to do? Suffer gracefully? Sitting like an elegant lady and saying “haha, very nice! Continue?”.

She considers it unique that she has been given the opportunity to participate in policy development on key issues, first with unaccompanied minors and then at the Ministry of Health. “When you have such extreme conditions, every day, if you don’t do what you have to do, something irreparably bad can happen to a person. You can’t put it off, say, “I’ll do it tomorrow.” And that means a long sleep for 4-5 hours daily. “I don’t have any special hobbies or other activities at all. My life has always been my work, I did it anyway, and not what I’m doing now, ”he says.

Surprise

The proposal to head the State Council “was a big surprise, it never occurred to me, although I love politics, but I consider it the most important of the arts, in which there is also a scientific part.” What can he do in politics? “I think we should go back to basics. In a practical interest in the life of a city dweller, in everyday life, in what we see living on the street, going to the supermarket, taking public transport. It’s another thing when you’re out of the context of many, or when you have a different path and you’re not interested in actually dealing with the life of a citizen. So no matter which party you vote for, it’s very important to take who you choose to send to parliament to represent them very seriously.”

Her placement at the top of the ruling party’s state ballot has reignited the online war. The descriptions of imaginary methods of physical extermination that accompanied the threatening messages already during the referendum are enriched by a multitude of messages intertwined with sexual violence. “In politics, it’s easier to hit women. What worries me is SYRIZA’s tolerance for this violence and their seeming lack of understanding that bigotry and toxicity don’t have a limited impact on society. I do not offend the citizen, I understand that there are people who suffer, fight and get angry, and we must listen to this. But systematic smearing of reputation aimed at political collapse is something else. In politics we are rivals, not enemies.”

Irini Agapidaki politically defines herself as a centrist. “I have always had a program agreement with the party for which I vote every time. I may have expressed myself in other places in the past, but for many years now I have been close to N.D. because I believe that he was able to “communicate” with the times, thanks in large part to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, while he brought a new perspective on politics.”