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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-02-04Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>CONTENTS
[01] PASOK leader to visit Chios islandMain opposition PASOK party leader George Papandreou will visit the eastern Aegean island of Chios on Tuesday and will be meeting the prefect and representatives of local mastich production agencies.At 7 in the evening, Papandreou will address the pre-congress procedure of the party's prefectural congress organising committee at the Omirio Cultural Centre. Speaking at PASOK's meeting of the coordinating political body on Monday, Papandreou said that the country "cannot proceed with a prime minister held hostage and it is necessary that it be rid both of the policies of the (Prime Minister Costas) Karamanlis government and of the Karamanlis government itself." The PASOK leader further said that all of the party's cadres, members and friends must respond to this struggle, as well as the Greek people themselves, while the rest of the political forces must state their case and assume their responsibilities. Lastly, Papandreou stressed that PASOK's positions and proposals for the country to come out of the crisis are known and are included both in the memorandum submitted by himself to the President of the Republic on a crackdown on corruption and in the proposal that he tabled in Parliament on a change in the political system that concerns, among other things, the changing of the electoral law and the revision of the constitution. Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |