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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-02-06
CONTENTS
[01] PASOK on Political System issue
[02] Papariga on political situation
[01] PASOK on Political System issue
Main opposition Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) leader George
Papandreou on Wednesday chaired a party meeting on the Political
System, saying that his party would very soon show that it is different
and constitutes the alternative solution.
Speaking during the meeting, Papandreou stressed that ?many are
striking a blow against the Movement, attempting to create conditions
of permanent crisis, but we deny them daily.? He added that ?despite
the unacceptable efforts of leveling and offsetting, PASOK will very
soon show that it is different and constitutes the alternative
solution.?
On his part, party spokesman Yiannis Ragoussis said after the lengthy
meeting: ?If (Prime Minister Costas) Mr. Karamanlis is not afraid of
anything, if Mr. Karamanlis has nothing to hide over the Zachopoulos
scandal (former culture ministry secretary general Christos
Zachopoulos), then here is Parliament, then here also is the Cultural
Affairs Committee.?
[02] Papariga on political situation
The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) "reacts to the situation prevailing
in the country today and seeks to bring to the forefront the
substantial issues," KKE Secretary General Aleka Papariga said in
Athens on Wednesday during an event organised by the party on energy.
Commenting on the current political climate, she underlined that over
the past period "there is a monopoly of information, but also of
controversy, with certain matters which we do not underestimate. They
say and they are scandals. But for us they are expressions and forms of
a general strategy, above all on the field of the economy and
indisputably influences in one way or the other the political
structure. This discussion in the way it is taking place, marginalises
to second and third place, the fate of important and acute problems."
Caption: ANA-MPA file photo of Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
Secretary General Aleka Papariga.
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