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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-01-25
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[01] KKE leader: SYRIZA will follow European monopolies, interests
[01] KKE leader: SYRIZA will follow European monopolies, interests
ANA - MPA --- The national election results express "the great discontent
and anger of our people for the New Democracy and PASOK parties that
sank the country into poverty and unemployment all these years of the
economic crisis," Communist Party of Greece Secretary General Dimitris
Koutsoumbas said on Sunday night.
The result, he said, "also expresses, to a great degree, the false hope
that the new government of the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) can follow
a people-friendly policy," Koutsoumbas said, and made particular mention
of people who decided to vote for the KKE for the first time.
"KKE believed and still believes that the Parliament's new composition
and the formation of a SYRIZA government - whether by itself or by
collaboration, and based on official statements and stances during
and before the campaign period - will move along the same lines of an
exclusively European path, of reduced demands, retreats and compromises
and commitments to large capital, monopolies, the EU and NATO - with
whatever that means for our people and homeland," Koutsoumbas said,
adding that "it's the working class that will pay for that, once again."
Koutsoumbas also commented on extreme-right Golden Dawn (Chryssi Avgi)
coming in third, in votes, calling it "an extremely negative development
in that a Nazi-friendly party, with specific criminal murderous actions
over several years, created by the same mechanisms of the system that
fight the interests of the people, still retains significant percentages
in the electorate."
"The KKE will intensify its efforts and initiatives in sharply rising
labour, popular issues, through proposals to relieve the unemployed,
working-class families, the self-employed, farmers and students," the
party leader said. "In and out of Parliament, with the power granted
us by the people, we will fight to reveal to the people any antipopular
measures that are being planned," he pledged.
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