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Athens News Agency: News in English, 07-09-14
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[01] Need for a gov't that believes in and can implement reforms, PM
tells Athens rally
[01] Need for a gov't that believes in and can implement reforms, PM
tells Athens rally
Prime Minister and New Democracy (ND) party Costas Karamanlis
reiterated on Friday evening his call for a strong government able to
take bold decisions for reforms emphasising that "the government which
will emerge from the September 16 elections must believe in the need of
changes and reforms, must want and know how to implement them. I commit
myself, if Greeks put their confidence in me, to form such a
government."
Addressing a central Athens election rally, the prime minister asked
for the participation of all citizens in the elections saying that no
one should be absent from "Sunday's feast of Democracy."
"The participation of all is a duty towards Greece, it is a duty to our
children's future, it is a duty towards Democracy, so that all together
lead the country forward."
Insisting on holding the elections in a calm climate, the prime
minister said that "we go forward with confidence, with moderation,
with a smile, saying no to misery, no to shouts and populism. We table
to the citizens' judgement, the truth of our achievements, the truth of
our programme."
"Greece changes. Greece handles effectively the problems left behind by
the past. It lays firm foundations for the future. Citizens know very
well the accumulated and difficult problems we were called upon to
resolve in March 2004: A public debt, which for its interests alone,
costs 10 billion euros per year; a public deficit of 8 per cent of the
GDP, which treatened the economy's foundations; a state which was
sinking in extravagance, deficits, bureaucracy, non-transparency;
unemployment which had reached 11.3 per cent," the prime minister
said.
Enumerating his goverment's achievements, Karamanlis referred to the
"drastic decrease of the deficit, the high rates of growth, the
country's exit from the excessive deficit surveillance process, the
fall in unemployment from 11.3 per cent to 7.7 per cent."
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