Athens News Agency: News in English, 09-01-01
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[01] Parties' messages
[01] Parties' messages
Opposition parliamentary parties issued messages for the New Year
referring extensively to current political affairs.
Main opposition PASOK party leader George Papandreou said in a New
Year's message that the Greeks "realise that salvation cannot result
from compromises but from clear progressive solutions." He added that
"we know that we Greeks deserve and can achieve what is better.
Provided that we do not fear truths."
The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) said in its message that "there is
a path for the people not to pay for the consequences of the capitalist
crisis, the all the more reactionary changes that capital promotes.
There is a path for us to repel the new antipopular measures that the
European Union and the (ruling) New Democracy and PASOK parties are
preparing secretly and openly."
The Coalition of the Left, Movements and Ecology (Synaspismos) said
that the new year that is coming "is inheriting the problems that have
been accumulated by the international economic crisis and by the
neo-liberal government policy in all sectors of society and of our
life."
The Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) party leader George Karatzaferis
expressed the hope that 2009 "will bring greater peace, calm, work and
prudence and will leave behind the quarrels, the arson attacks and the
big words of 2008, and also that God will pacify the souls of those who
take dramatic decisions at the expense of the many."
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