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Athens News Agency: News in English, 05-10-14
CONTENTS
[01] KKE SG calls on people to 'systematically resist, claim and change
policies'
[01] KKE SG calls on people to 'systematically resist, claim and change
policies'
Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Secretary General Aleka Papariga,
speaking in an interview with a private TV station on Friday, called on
the Greek people to "systematically resist, claim and change political
orientations".
Referring to the people's "apathy towards politics", she said that over
the past 15 years big negative changes took place since "there were
also parties which supported struggles, supported struggles but
deceived people, they caused disappointment and all these things bring
apathy."
Commenting on a recent opinion poll which gives her party 8 percent of
the vote, Papariga said that the influence of KKE is far greater and
stressed that the party's recovery will come from the younger ages.
Papariga expressed support for a heating oil subsidy being provided for
poorer people, but added that for KKE there is the possibility of the
price of oil falling in general and noted that "in general, we support
the abolition of V.A.T. on commodities of wide popular consumption."
The KKE leader also referred to the problem of the name of the Former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), saying that "the term
'Macedonia', to the extent it will be used, must be a purely geographic
term and not an ethnic term. There must be respect for borders and
there must be no raising of a minority issue in Greece."
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