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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-06-18
CONTENTS
[01] OTE-DT agreement ratified
[01] OTE-DT agreement ratified
The Greek Parliament ratified in the early hours of Thursday a
strategic alliance agreement between the Hellenic Telecommunications
Organisation (OTE) and Deutsche Telekom. 151 deputies of the ruling New
Democracy (ND) party voted for the ratification, while 144 deputies of
the oppostion parties voted against. 295 deputies, out of the
300-member House, participated in the vote.
Addressing a parliamentary debate before the vote, Economy and Finance
Minister George Alogoskoufis reiterated that the government did not
deceive anyone and that the program of selling a further stake in OTE
and seeking a strategic investor was included in New Democracyâs
pre-election program which was approved by the Greek people with its
vote. He underlined that the agreement was to the benefit of both the
organization, consumers, minority shareholders and the Greek economy in
general, while he accused the main opposition of pretending to react
since it was too searching for a strategic investor when it was in
government.
PASOK party deputy Evangelos Venizelos accused the government of
adopting a ?dark, long-term and illegal practice, proof of the legal
and political responsibility of the government?.
ND deputy Giannis Manolis said he would vote in favour of the contract
although he stressed he would oppose any decision to cut the stateâs
equity stake in OTE below 25 percent.
Communist party deputy Giannis Mavrikos and SYRIZA partyâs deputy
Panagiotis Lafazanis, both expressed their parties strong opposition to
the agreement.
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