It's his actual job - to represent and follow the opinion of the people. It's called democracy. And if the opinion of the majority is wrong, then, in this case, so be it.
He's not a representative, he's an administrator. Representing the people is the job of parliament, his job is to lead. He cannot just switch sides whenever it suits him.
We have all of these safeguards in place to ensure our leaders neither go off the rails completely, nor simply follow the popular opinion du jour with the predictable disastrous consequences.
If we would do that in the rest of Europe, aid to Greece would have stopped a long time ago.
Well, it should have stopped a long time ago... Or to be more accurate, financial help should never happen in the first place. But that's another long story.
We have all of these safeguards in place to ensure our leaders neither go off the rails completely, nor simply follow the popular opinion du jour with the predictable disastrous consequences.
If we would do that in the rest of Europe, aid to Greece would have stopped a long time ago.