Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-07-20

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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[01] Papandreou bashes 'miserable' government

[01] Papandreou bashes 'miserable' government

Referring to statements by prime minister Costas Karamanlis on Friday at the annual conference of the ND youth organization ONNED in Ancient Olympia, Papandreou said that the prime minister had decided in his address to bring even more despair to the hearts of the people.

He accused Karamanlis of launching a demagogic attack on PASOK, adding that the prime minister "went to the scene of the crime, one year after the destruction (in last summer's wildfires), without having done anything for the problems of the area, to say that PASOK was to blame for everything".

"Mr. Karamanlis went to Olympia with a zero account and empty hands, to say that, as of September, the government will present some plan," Papandreou said, adding that "the prime minister has been doing the same thing from the first day he took over the governance of the country".

"The people no longer believe that fairy tale, they're on to you," he said, in a statement directed at Karamanlis personally.

Papandreou attributed Karamanlis' appearance at Olympia to the "tragic impasse he is at, given that his government is steadily collapsing, the people are fed up, and he is engulfed by scandals and corruption", and that was why the premier "decided to bring polarization and revanchisme and to become himself an arsonist of political normality, at a time when we need to take serious decisions for the country".

He called the prime minister a true child of the "worst traditions of the Right", and of not having perceived that "he is the prime minister and has the obligation of giving account for his own term in office".

Instead of maligning PASOK, Karamanlis should be speaking about the franchise colleges, the high cost of living, the negotiations he was not conducting in Brussels for the farmers, the public hospitals, the problems faced by the low pension earners, combating bureaucracy and the problems of transparency, Papandreou said, adding that "he can't do that because his government is dealing exclusively with selling of the state wealth".

"It's time for the government of the clientelism to leave, and for a new, progressive government that respects the citizen to take its place," Papandreou concluded.

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