In a move that raises many questions about the validity of Greece's political system, Russian officials apparently want to send a team of observers to Greece to monitor the upcoming May 6 national elections. What are they afraid of? Is there a fear of electoral fraud? Do they know something that we don't? Is this connected to reports that claim that the PASOK run Ministry of Interior has made massive nationalizations of illegal immigrants?
According to reports, Russian officials sent a request to the Greek Foreign Ministry stating that they want to send a team of Russian observers to Greece to see that "wrong doings" are not made in the final election results. And the obvious question is does Moscow know something that we are not aware of here in Greece? Are certain groups planning on tampering with the May 6 election results?
Russia's position on this, according to what was stated via its embassy in Athens, is that it really does not mean anything specific by this request, and that they usually send observers in various countries around the world when elections are held, and Greece is not an exception. The Embassy also revealed that Russia had sent observers to Greece during the 2010 municipal elections so this was very customary. Analyzing the response, the military news site defencenet said that there is a lot being said behind Russia's diplomatic response.
Greek-Russian relations are at an all time low, and have been placed on the back burner since PASOK and George Papandreou came into power in 2009. Besides... when a Greek MP such as PASOK's Petros Efthymiou dares to challenge the validity of the results of the Russian presidential elections, then it would be foolish for him and for anyone in his party to believe that there would be no retaliation by Moscow in response to an MP who dared to challenge its sovereignty.
The Russian request which was issued by the "Center for Monitoring Democratic Processes Quorum", part of the Eurasian Union, asks that its observers monitor the elections locally and it is perfectly legal. Under the principle of reciprocity the Greek government is obligated to accept this request.
Following the news, defencenet contacted one of its sources in Moscow and asked if they suspected that electoral fraud was going to be committed. The source apparently told the military news site that they did not believe that the election results would be tampered with but nonetheless want to know "first hand" how national elections are conducted in Greece. "These elections are critical to Greece", the source said.
We agree. These are critical elections. And we are already reading massive amounts of information on the blog sphere about possible election fraud being committed. In fact the announcement from Russia only confirms our suspicion. and is already making us question the validity of the upcoming elections. One of the reasons for this is because the government of Lucas Papademos did not appoint temporary ministers to the Ministries of Interior and Order to see monitor the election process as Greece has done in the past during other elections. The Ministry of Interior is responsible for organizing the elections and monitoring them until the election results are processed.
But how can this election be fair when Minister of Interior Tassos Giannitsis, (part of the PASOK party) issued Greek citizenship to countless Albanian nationals only a few days ago? (According to an Albanian newspaper)
In a separate report on prionokordela we read an article concerning these sudden nationalizations. The article titled "PASOK importon vota nga Shqiperia" (PASOK introduces Votes from Albania" refers to the citizenship of countless Albanians from Northern Epirus by Greece's Minister of the Interior during the period April 2 - 20!
Most of the residents in this area of Albania are Greek nationals, however, the newspaper also praised the "generosity" of Greece's Interior Ministry which it says benefitted many nationals in its country from various cities across Albania. At the same time it added that these other people across Albania are not part of a minority group and are not Christian Orthodox!
The newspaper also says that it believed there was two reasons behind this sudden move by Athens. One has to do with a law that was passed by the Papandreou government allowing illegal immigrants to be granted citizenship quickly without having to become residents at all and the other concerts the upcoming parliamentary elections.
"According to reports we learned that this is a move made by the Minister of Interior of Greece Anastasios Giannitsis, who is from PASOK, to gain more votes", said the closing comments in the newspaper report.
Also, several days ago we featured one such report here on hellasfrappe where we presented a whole list of names who were suddenly granted with Greek citizenship with the blessing of PASOK government spokesman Fofi Gennimatas - who until her appointment as spokesman was at the Ministry of Interior as well.- (Read article by clicking here)
No wonder observers want to monitor these elections.
PASOK is desperate to stay in power.
In our opinion all they are doing is playing with fire. The people will not tolerate this a second time. We know what they did during the 2000 national elections where hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants were baptized Greek citizens in exchange for a vote, the results of which kept them in power by a narrow margin. We advise them to think twice about this move, because we are afraid that the fury of the people (once this is found out) will lead to grave repercussions.
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