On the political developments and the anticipated elections in Greece
Yesterday, January 7, Prime Minister Costas Simtis announced his decision to leave PASOK's presidency and to carry out anticipated elections on March 7 drawing on the Cyprus issue. A meeting that took place yesterday between Costas Simitis and the Foreign Minister George Papandreou set in motion the process for Papandreou to succeed Simitis at the presidency of PASOK.
The General Secretary of the CC of KKE, Aleka Paparigha, commenting the developments in a press conference stated that “we witness an effort to deceive the popular masses in front of the elections” and she underscored that these developments should “function as an awakening for the popular strata and the progressive people”, and called upon them to “seize the opportunity to oppose the wishes of the establishment and the “foreign factor” and escape from the parties of PASOK and ND, to condemn their policy”, and to vote for the ballots of KKE.
Aleka Paparigha stressed that “the anti-popular policy of PASOK cannot be washed away by the alteration at the leadership of PASOK”. “What kind of change can bring G. Papandreou, who hase stated that the interests of Greece coincide with the ones of the US….He is the one that has openly said that has no taboos and the change of borders does not bother him”. At the same time, she noted, “neither the anti-popular policy of NE can be washed away, since what it did as the major opposition party all these years was to push PASOK for accelerating the implementation of reactionary measures”.
Commenting on the role of the foreign factor in the recent developments, she said that “to our opinion, the foreign factor had been in past and still is today present in all developments, as it is also the economic oligarchy of the country. All these developments confirm one conclusion: That there is interest to preserve the bipartisan system strong, that is continue the alteration of two bourgeois parties at the government; however, at the same time measures are being taken in the direction of preparing the evolution of the bipartisan system in a bipolar one. The discussion around the “renewal of the political personnel” –promoted by both PASOK and ND- reveals the interest for changes in the political system in the direction of establishing a modern bipolar system under the form of “center-left”/”center-right””.
Aleka Paparigha underlined that “what is needed is a radical change of policy, a radical reversal of the correlation of forces”, and she concluded that the Communist Party of Greece faces with confidence the forthcoming elections, trusting the popular masses and the experience they have accumulated.
For your information, the results of the last general elections that took place on April 9, 2000 were: PASOK 43.8% (158 MPs), Nea Dimocratia 42.7% (125 MPs), KKE 5.5% (11 MPs), Synaspismos 3.2% (6 MPs), DIKKI 2.7%.
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The General Secretary of the CC of KKE, Aleka Paparigha, commenting the developments in a press conference stated that “we witness an effort to deceive the popular masses in front of the elections” and she underscored that these developments should “function as an awakening for the popular strata and the progressive people”, and called upon them to “seize the opportunity to oppose the wishes of the establishment and the “foreign factor” and escape from the parties of PASOK and ND, to condemn their policy”, and to vote for the ballots of KKE.
Aleka Paparigha stressed that “the anti-popular policy of PASOK cannot be washed away by the alteration at the leadership of PASOK”. “What kind of change can bring G. Papandreou, who hase stated that the interests of Greece coincide with the ones of the US….He is the one that has openly said that has no taboos and the change of borders does not bother him”. At the same time, she noted, “neither the anti-popular policy of NE can be washed away, since what it did as the major opposition party all these years was to push PASOK for accelerating the implementation of reactionary measures”.
Commenting on the role of the foreign factor in the recent developments, she said that “to our opinion, the foreign factor had been in past and still is today present in all developments, as it is also the economic oligarchy of the country. All these developments confirm one conclusion: That there is interest to preserve the bipartisan system strong, that is continue the alteration of two bourgeois parties at the government; however, at the same time measures are being taken in the direction of preparing the evolution of the bipartisan system in a bipolar one. The discussion around the “renewal of the political personnel” –promoted by both PASOK and ND- reveals the interest for changes in the political system in the direction of establishing a modern bipolar system under the form of “center-left”/”center-right””.
Aleka Paparigha underlined that “what is needed is a radical change of policy, a radical reversal of the correlation of forces”, and she concluded that the Communist Party of Greece faces with confidence the forthcoming elections, trusting the popular masses and the experience they have accumulated.
For your information, the results of the last general elections that took place on April 9, 2000 were: PASOK 43.8% (158 MPs), Nea Dimocratia 42.7% (125 MPs), KKE 5.5% (11 MPs), Synaspismos 3.2% (6 MPs), DIKKI 2.7%.
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