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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 14-05-25
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[01] PM Samaras: We will not allow Greece to return to chaos
[01] PM Samaras: We will not allow Greece to return to chaos
ANA-MPA -- Prime Minister Antonis Samaras opened his speech at a central
Athens rally on Friday evening with an attack against main opposition
Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA), charging it wanted to "return Greece
back to chaos" and asserting they would be no new measures and new
memorandums by his government.
Speaking at Syntagma Square prior to Sunday's double elections of local
government (second round) and the European Parliament, Samaras said,
"We are at the most critical moment of the greatest battle. Greece will
forge ahead, we will win this race."
He noted, "We are exiting the memorandums and the crisis" and said he
would not refer to the primary surplus, the dropping unemployment rate,
and Greece's return to international markets. "These are things you
know," he told the audience, "as you also know that some do not want
us to exit the crisis, they want us to return back to chaos. We will
not let them return us to chaos. They want to topple the government -
and New Democracy responds: Why overturn the government now that we are
at the most critical point?"
The premier charged SYRIZA with trying to "freeze everything and
bring instability," and "other unbelievable gibberish they say." Their
assertions "are enough to create anew the danger of our exiting the
euro," Samaras said, and called on voters to action: "Every one of you
must prevent the danger of Greece returning to uncertainty," he said.
He also noted that people's relaxed attitude who see the country exiting
the crisis is dangerous: "Let no one play the game of those who want fear,
instability and panic."
"When they call for early elections, we respond with the need for a new
Constitution. The Constitution must be revised so that the President of
the Republic is directly elected by the people. I have been tearing up
the memorandums daily, these past two years," he concluded.
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