Athens News Agency: News in English, 07-08-12

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

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[01] Papandreou says PASOK ready to govern

[01] Papandreou says PASOK ready to govern

Main opposition PASOK leader George Papandreou over the weekend, in a published interview in a Sunday edition of an Athens daily, reiterated that his party is ready to govern "the next day".

Moreover, the former foreign minister in successive PASOK governments, said the responsibility will be even greater as three-and-a-half-year long "New Democracy government has razed the country and overturned social conquests."

Additionally, the PASOK leader again charged that the government sported an array of political blemishes, which he claimed included the "blackmailing of consciences, efforts to buy-off votes and a petty partisan reasoning of the state as booty".

He also said that Premier Costas Karamanlis is "obligated, sooner or later, to declare elections".

The latter comment comes amid high-pitched local media speculation, even in the usually lackadaisical holiday month of August, claiming that early elections will be declared in late September of early October 2007. Elections are normally slated for March 2008.

His statements were carried in the Athens daily "Vima".

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