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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 14-04-01
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[01] Venizelos rules out early national elections
[01] Venizelos rules out early national elections
ANA/MPA--There is no question of national elections, government Vice
President and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos said.
Responding to press questions, Venizelos stressed that the government's
stability is guaranteed, that he respected the PASOK parliamentary
group's stance (during the voting on the omnibus bill past Sunday
midnight) and that the Greek people wanted stability. He also said that
the government's stability was confirmed in Sunday's vote because there
has been no voting in which the government has not held the absolute
majority of all deputies present.
Asked about the voting down of the bill's second article by former Prime
Minister and former PASOK leader George Papandreou, Venizelos referred
to an earlier statement and said that everyone was under judgment.
Asked whether he did not expel deputies in order to avoid reducing the
coalition majority, he said he was not using managerial measures as his
criterion, adding at the same time, "Allow me to say that Papandreou
has indissoluble bonds and great pending issues with PASOK."
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