The Prime Minister, and New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras presented his party’s National Reforms and Development plans live on TV, from a press conference in the InterContinental hotel.

“Some people want a businessman’s partisan state, where others want the prevalence of the state, but what –we- want is growth”, he stated, adding that the country must start to produce again with an outward-looking economy, reiterating his position that Greece has nothing to be jealous of the way Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, and Israel, operate in markets, comparing the populace numbers and strategic placement. “We must create an environment that will continue to support entrepreneurship and that will liberate the people’s dynamic. The government prevented the country’s exit from the Eurozone, while a political party exists that wants to entrap the Greek people”, he added, directly insinuating that this party is SYRIZA.

“The OECD has placed Greece amongst the first country in Europe as far as reforms go for three years running. A flurry of reforms took place in the country while it was sinking in the crisis. In the coming years we will proceed to reforms with conditions of growth”, said the PM that “we have been able to manage three very difficult state budgets and now we can exit the memorandum a year earlier. We began to develop the state to the point where we can bring in investments and revenues to the state while other parties want a return to statism. Thirdly, we balanced a budget which was voted on and now the state covers its needs, and we have the money to pay the debt’s interest”.