Rifts in Pasok - The Best from Greece

MP Christos Polyzogopoulos, a deputy of the former ruling Pasok party, on Wednesday night sharply criticised party leader and former prime minister George Papandreou, saying that with the policy applied by the latter, he contributed to the responsibilities in the 2004-2009 period of the then New Democracy (ND) government for the situation in Greece "to have been forgotten".

 

Polyzogopoulos, a member of the Pasok National Council and head of the party's parliamentary group committee on the economy, said that this could have been avoided, but "political planning, a strong leadership, collective social and political responsibility, and chiefly policies and social alliances" were needed.

 

He described the outcome of Papandreou's policy as "negative and even dangerous for the country", adding that "the time has come for an overall account and attribution of blame on those who have blame, and chiefly the Pasok leadership".

 

Polyzogopoulos, a former chief of Greece's largest umbrella trade union organisation, the General Confederation of Workers (GSEE), also expressed disagreement with the participation of the Popular Orthodox Rally (Laos) party in the Greece's new transitional government, warning that this "dis-incriminates the far Right", which he considers a political impropriety that burdens Papandreou.