The things some Greek politicians do in order to win the attention of voters. They lie, they make promises that they never keep and they even try to convince us that they share no responsibility in bad decision making. Former labor and health minister Andreas Loverdos is one such politician. At the weekend he came under attack after having the audacity to say that some members of the George Papandreou cabinet, especially himself, opposed the decision to seek help from the International Monetary Fund in 2010.
Wanting to project the image of a "victim", several months before he proclaims his new political party, Loverdos said that he and other ministers such as Anna Diamantopoulou and Giannis Ragousis advised against turning to the IMF but Prime Minister George Papandreou was in favor of the move and was supported by Finance Minister George Papakonstantinou and Economy Minister Louka Katseli.
(Guess we know who will be part of his new party).
Following the statements, Papandreou issued a statement noting that there was a unanimous Cabinet decision in May 2010 by all who agreed to the first memorandum of understanding with the IMF, as well as the European Commission and European Central Bank.
“Why is he making such a break from the truth?” wondered Papandreou in his statement.
Papandreou, who is still galivanting across the globe, and giving speeches about how to re-design Europe (when in all reality he almost destroyed it) attributed Loverdos’s statement to efforts to publicize the political movement, RIKSSY, he launched recently. “What a shame, Andreas,” noted Papandreou.
Speaking to SkAI television on Monday morning, Panos Beglitis, who held the position of Alternate Defense Minister under the Papandreou government, insisted that there as a unanimous Cabinet decision to turn to the mechanism set up by the Troika and underlined that Berlin and other EU nations insisted that the IMF take part because of its know-how in creating fiscal adjustment programs.
But then again Beglitis is a big supporter of Papandreou, and therefore his word is not that objective.
Our opinion - We believe that the Papandreou government was 100 percent in favor of binding Greece to the memorandums -for many reasons which we will not discuss at the moment-, and his ministers -who operated as a state within a state- were also 100 percent in favor for their own intent and purposes. The attempts by its former ministers to try and get back into the game -or back into politics- by portraying themselves as "victims" and/or "naive" is not really going to cut it. In fact we here at HellasFrappe would like nothing more than to see ALL of PASOK dissolve and fade to history for destroying our economy and for offering nothing more than misery to the Greek people. Loverdos, and all the ministers mentioned above have a responsibility for the current economic, social, and political mess our country is experiencing. At some point they must face their responsibility and stop throwing dust in our eyes in order to patch up their fragmented image!
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