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There was a time, not too far away, when Yanis Varoufakis almost went from a simple economist to shine with the brilliance of rock stars. Those were the days when he would leave any office clad in his black leather jacket, with superman gait, helmet in hand and bald head exposed to the Aegean sun, and he would get on a large-displacement motorcycle, adequately dodging a journalist cloud. In 2015, the emblematic party of the populist left in Greece , Syriza, had come to power, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had appointed him Minister of Finance, and Varoufakis was mashing what was going to be the move of his life: take a I push the European Union,led by Angela Merkel's Germany, to end austerity policies imposed from Brussels and deepen Greece's fiscal sovereignty just as the country was plunged into an appalling crisis.

Varoufakis, logically, believed he was the winner and enveloped him in a cloud of support - on the streets and on social networks - that cheered him up and encouraged him to raise his tone until he confused it with that of the revolutionaries of yesteryear. It was undeniable that he had a charismatic aura : for the puppies of the anti-system movement, he was the example that one could move from Marxist theory to practice in the postmodern framework - his essay The Global Minotaur had become an unexpected best seller of the theory economic, although today perhaps it has already become a background volume of the utopian current of the European left, crushed by the changes of the present and already practically obsolete-, and he received that energy by raising his profiled chin and his stocky body like the of a revived Achilles.

With his leather jacket and his large-capacity motorcycle, in a 2015 image taken in Athens.

It was when his female fans modified his last name in the frivolous conversations of bar terrace, that instead of Varoufakis they called him Varoufucker , fantasizing that the alpha male put them looking at Crete-, and as much could his sex symbol aura as the one he had a Marxist guru. It was then when Syriza forced that referendum in Greece, of which five years ago this Sunday, by his order, to vote if the rescue conditions for his country were accepted: the people said no, and the government - developed by the royal politik of the moment-, he said yes. And he resigned, got on his motorcycle and left.

Logically, Varoufakis was not a Homeric hero for everyone. Where some saw a Hector - the defender of the Trojan wall against the thrust of the Achaean hordes -, others saw his brother Paris, the frivolous prince amazed by the beauty of a woman, and who led his people to disaster. Just as the crisis was raging in Greece and he was crying out against austerity and the rights of the weak, he was also photographed for Paris Match magazine in his luxurious apartment overlooking the Acropolis in the company of his second wife, Dana Stratou (1964 ), visual and installation artist, university professor, with whom she has two children , and who became famous suddenly, and twice, because from England the music press speculated that she could have been the young Greek fine arts student who , in the 1990s, inspired the lyrics for the song Common People by the group Pulp.

With Alexis Tsipras (i), who appointed Varoufakis as Minister of Finance.

The song, it is already known, deals with the conflict between the false bohemian lumpen - that of the foreign posh girls who travel to London to study and live like normal people, and who at the first exchange call Dad to send them money and escape the scab-, and he to the real working class cockney that has nowhere to fall dead. Many consider the theory good and Jarvis Cocker, the author of the song, does not deny it, since he agreed in the last year of Saint Martin's College, where she studied sculpture. Neither she nor Varoufakis, for their part, have confirmed that this is true.

The fact is that Varoufakis did not preach the same thing that he demanded, he failed in his attempt to break the draconian conditions of the Troika to power in Athens, and in a gesture of coherence he resigned to resume his career as a teacher, writer and activist. In the first years, she returned to Australia - she has dual citizenship, Greek and Australian - where her teenage daughter, Xenia, lives, the result of a failed first marriage, and there she wrote a book on redistributive economics intended for young readers, she resumed her career As a lecturer - his fee for each speech was around $ 60,000 - and he considered creating a new political platform.

The politician and his wife (the second), Dana Stratou.GTRES

This finally ended up becoming the Democracy in Europe 2025 movement and, later, the MeRA25 party (European Front of Realistic Disobedience), which ran for the Greek legislative elections of 2019 - won nine seats -, and the last European elections, where he was about to get representation. Rejoined in politics, but trampled by the current events of recent years - the return of the economic crisis, the failure of the populist left, which had to reluctantly regain the social-democratic rather than the revolutionary agenda, and the rise of Identitarianisms in the face of anti-caste discourse-, Varoufakis has already lost his opportunity to change Europe, but he has not changed his current account or his way of life, thanks to his juicy income as the author of books that, between one thing and the other, continue selling well, because it continues to envelop that aura that almost made him a pop idol.

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