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December 28, 2014

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Samaras Appeals to MPs Ahead of Monday's Final Vote For New President of the Republic

In an interview to the NERIT public state broadcaster on Saturday, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras appealed to MPs to vote in favor of Stavros Dimas as the new President of the Republic ahead of Monday's parliamentary vote and not trigger early general elections.

He also launched an attack against the main opposition SYRIZA party but also the Independent Greeks (ANEL) party and even referred to the (MP) Haikalis case.

According to the Greek Premier, everything that has been declared by SYRIZA so far can only do one thing and that is to lead Greece outside the euro.

He revealed that SYRIZA is proof that if the troika leaves the Greeks will begin wastefulness and added that the more the Europeans hear what this Radical Left Greek party has to say the more they become appalled.
     “If we go to elections we will win”, said the Prime Minister and added that: “The people do not want elections”.
It should be reminded that the Greek Parliament is due to vote in the third and last round for Greek president on Monday at 12:00 noon and failure to achieve the required 180 votes is then going to oblige the government to dissolve and stage national elections.

Last week, the sole candidate Stavros Dimas did not gain a two-thirds majority, or 200 MP votes, required in the first two rounds.

Responding to rumors that the far-right Golden Dawn party is considering supporting the coalition government’s candidate, Dimas said at the weekend that he would not accept to be elected President of the Hellenic Republic with votes by GD.

Other New Democracy MPs (that are from the Mitsotakis camp) such as Parliament VP Markogiannakis, Administrative Reform Minister Mitsotakis and MP Dora Bakoyanni also surprisingly rejected potential support from Golden Dawn as well.


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