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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-03-10
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[01] Gov't proposals on pension reform a 'monstrosity', Mitsotakis tells
ND forum
[01] Gov't proposals on pension reform a 'monstrosity', Mitsotakis tells
ND forum
Main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday
invited productive bodies and society to participate in drawing up ND's
programme, while attacking the government's proposals for reforming the
pension system as a "monstrosity". He was speaking during an opening
address to the Constantine Karamanlis Institute of Democracy forum on
social insurance.
"ND listens to the views of the citizens. It is changing its mode of
operation. It is uniting Greeks without looking at where they belonged
politically yesterday or what their social, ideological identity and
reference is. We are creating a grand majority social and political
alliance for the just reforms our country needs," he said. Mitsotakis
also hailed the participation of capable people with valuable experience
from adjacent political areas of the progressive centre and broader
centre-left in the dialogue opened by ND on this issue.
Regarding the pension system, he said ND was pointing the way toward a
fair, efficient and sustainable pension system and had demonstrated in
Parliament that it mounted an opposition based on positions, views and
an alternative proposal.
ND's leader went on to attack the government's handling of the refugee
crisis, saying it had put Greece at the tail end of Europe on an issue
where it should have first say. The government had reached the point
where it was learning about the closing of the Balkan route from Twitter,
he added.
"Had Mr. Tsipras understood what he co-signed in Brussels? With every
day that passes, the government's credibility and the so-called humanity
of Mr. Tsipras is sinking into the mud of Idomeni," he said.
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