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Why Mr Venizelos talked about “tails” – How New Democracy reacted

New Democracy seems to be concerned about the opposition strategy adopted by PASOK

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Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and President of PASOK Mr. Evangelos Venizelos will meet today at 15:30 and is expected to discuss on the developments in the economy and on the outcome of the Eurogroup meeting.

According to sources, the prime minister team believes that Mr. Venizelos in fear of seeing the Elia party collapsing, poses the dilemma that if Elia party don’t get a 10 % in the elections, the government would not be able to keep the power.

They think that in this way Mr Venizelos attempts to gain political benefits from the major dilemma “that arises in fact”, according to their view and summarized in “political stability or SYRIZA”. However, the way that PASOK acts does not concern only the next day of elections but it produces results during the elections period since it creates the impression of instability in the bipartisan government.

New Democracy seems to be concerned about the way PASOK acts which looks like expressing a rather opposition strategy.

“It seems that Mr. Venizelos plays all or nothing,” said a MP of the government and added: ” it is clear that he will require a greater share of the positive effects of government policy.” While the team close to Mr Samaras act condescendingly, most of the MPs of New Democracy believe that “our party has helped and covered many times PASOK and Mr Venizelos and risks to get low percentages in the elections due to this.”

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The leader of PASOK party, Evangelos Venizelos, acts in this way in an effort to bring together his party’s supporters so as to achieve high percentages in the upcoming elections.

The Deputy Prime Minister insists on posing dilemmas to the electorate, linking directly the performance of Elia party in european elections to the stability of government.

Although he rules out the possibility of withdrawing from the government, he argues that, in case Elia party don’t get adequate percentages at the elections, “developments will be unpredictable”. Also, Mr Venizelos said that Elia and PASOK are “the pillars of stability” and not a “tail that one can add so as to aggregate rates and cover the gap.”

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