He's a failed property developer who owes about €40 million to sub contractors and others. His debts are probably responsible for some firms going under.
Rightly or wrongly, property developers are regarded as pariahs in society but for some reason, he's treated differently. I know he's always been vocal in, say, his opposition to Lisbon etc, but as contributors to the current mess go, his hands aren't exactly clean. I find it difficult that he can easily attribute the mess to the poitical classes (comapring them to the mafia, no less) when he himself benefitted quite nicely from the set-up when things were good.
If he was that unhappy at the state of affairs, why didn't he run in 2007? Why only now when he's skint and out of a job?
Rightly or wrongly, property developers are regarded as pariahs in society but for some reason, he's treated differently. I know he's always been vocal in, say, his opposition to Lisbon etc, but as contributors to the current mess go, his hands aren't exactly clean. I find it difficult that he can easily attribute the mess to the poitical classes (comapring them to the mafia, no less) when he himself benefitted quite nicely from the set-up when things were good.
If he was that unhappy at the state of affairs, why didn't he run in 2007? Why only now when he's skint and out of a job?