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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 12-04-06
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[01] Venizelos addresses PASOK National Council
[01] Venizelos addresses PASOK National Council
AMNA - PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos on Friday addressed his party's
National Council meeting and underlined that the Greek parliament cannot
host fascist and neo-Nazi sympathizers.
"Greece, despite the difficulties, will either follow a European course
that offers a safe path for the return to economic stability or else
it will follow a blind course in some other direction for which nobody
is saying what this will be, what its goal will be or the guarantees,"
Venizelos stated, pointing out that this is what's at stake in the
general elections. He added that PASOK's goal is to win, saying that it
"is both realistic and attainable".
Venizelos characterized as a challenge the New Democracy (ND) position
for a "second election round" if no majority government can be formed.
Referring to PASOK MPs who do not wish to run in the imminent elections,
he said that this is a natural process of renewal, pointing out that
over 60 pct of the party's candidates will be new faces.
"All those who accept the party's strategy should join in," he said,
adding that being recently elected to the leadership of PASOK he extends
an invitation of unity. He added that the party's entire parliamentary
group will be running in the elections and invited all those who recently
parted ways with PASOK to return if they accept the political framework
he has set.
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