The referendum in Greece yesterday, gave to “NO” an unexpected for most 61%. That was overwhelming and surprise for many even among the supporters of the negative to the enforcement new measures Greeks. But what I think that really happened has only pertly to do with the new measures. This was a multiple message with too many recipients that will take some time to translate.

Like most of you I have already seen the headlines and the announcements from both sides. Nobel awarded economist Paul Krugman, hours after the result in a blog, celebrates a victory for the whole of Europe while the Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipilä with a few more words said that Greece just signed her exit from the Eurozone. I think they both projected their personal wishes and not what really is going on.

The Greek referendum per se was for the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, to see how much the Greeks were willing to give in to stay in a currency zone that has caused them only problems till now. He wanted to see how flexible he was in those negotiations with partners that often acted as revengeful neighbours and not as partners in solidarity.

Usually acts like that are judged by the result and if Tsipras used the referendum as one more tool for a long and painful referendum we have a long way in front of us before some kind of result shows. Parenthetically, the resignation of the Finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis hours after the victory – the fearless champion of the NO - is a sign that Mr Tsipras is willing to do some compromise sacrificing his main negotiator. Most likely this is one more move in this gigantic chessboard difficult to analyse with certainty from outside.

But as I said in the beginning the Greeks voted for many reasons that some of them never been clear to the foreign observers and actually one of them gave this overwhelming victory and it seems that the European political leadership has just started realizing. It was best put by the German Deputy Chancellor social-democrat Gabriel last week and during a thundering meeting of the German parliament.

“Neither the Greek people nor the new Greek government are to blame for the situation in this small country. It is due to corrupted policies applied the last three decades from the two ruling parties, the conservative New Democracy and the Socialist PASOK. Our mistake lies in the fact that we trusted exactly the same people to save Greece.”

This simple paragraph says everything. Says why Greeks were so angry, says why the measures never passed with the people even the necessary ones, says why they failed and everybody – including Troika – always felt misled, it says why nothing really never changed. Why the rich never stopped getting richer even under these circumstances and why all the measures targeted the poor. It says why people turned against everybody in the end.

Antonis Samaras, the Greek PM while all these measures where enforced was in the essence of this corruption that led Greece in thirty years to this situation. A man who was in the conservative party for one and only reason, far-right, fascist and Nazi parties always were too small to satisfy his ambitions. A self-centred politician who didn’t care how many dead bodies he will leave behind as long he would satisfy his thirst for power. And all the signs were there three decades before when he came to the main stage of Greek politics.

The man was part of the problem when he served as Finance minister and he became a problem when he served as foreign minister during early 1990s. He betrayed the founder of the conservative party for purely personal agenda and he betrayed the then prime minster Kostas Mitsotakis to serve his ambitions with result the fall of the government.

A man who acted like they stole his house when he lost the elections five months ago insulting in personal level the new-coming prime minster and leaving the prime mister’s office empty in a petty behaviour and informed the opposite side of the negotiation table in the Eurozone for every new move the prime minister was planning.

A man who served certain bankers, industrialist and media oligarchs with scandalous loans of millions of euros during the crisis and contracts with a state that didn’t have money to pay treatments for cancer victims. Who used the measures expanding them in convenience to serve better his personal “friends”, a man who has done so much damage to Greece that it will take long time for the Greek democracy to recover.

And this man was representing the “YES”, the slogan “We stay Europe”. There is no doubt why the 61% and if some haven’t been scared with all the lie conspiracy theories that spread last week this 61% could have been even 75% perhaps even more.

Last night and few hours after the final results had been publicized in a despicable nationally televised message and after showing for one more time how petty and despicable man he is, he announced his resignation from the presidency of the Conservative party making clear that he’s not resigning from politics leaving the party in the uncertainty that his intrigues are going to continue in a new field.

But Tsipras got rid from the inside enemy, an enemy that didn’t hurt only him but the whole nation and this is the greatest victory that came from yesterday’s result. The beginning of the end for the corruption that has destroyed this country. Hearing his resignation was the first time that night I felt like smiling. Hope has return and I sincerely hope that everybody can understand that. For the rest we can only speculate till results come.