• Lack of adoption of parties

They postpone meeting between the Prime Minister and leaders of the Government coalition parties

Athens, Greece (08/FEB/2012)-Although the Government of Greece and the troika approached positions, the closure of negotiations to give the rescue package will have to wait until today then that was postponed a meeting with the leaders of Greek political parties.

Exbanquero Lucas Papademos Greek Government decided to postpone until today the crucial meeting between the Prime Minister and the leaders of the parties of the Government coalition–Social Democrats, conservatives and ultra-right-which must endorse a pact that in principle should collect international demands that soar over the austerity measures.

This meeting has been postponed day after day since last Sunday, amid great excitement in international markets and the growing social unrest in Greece.

During yesterday afternoon it seemed evident that progress in the negotiations between Papademos and the Greek Finance Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, on one hand, and representatives of the troika, comprising the European Commission (EC), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on the other had been.

A source of the hellene Executive assured even reached a principle of agreement, although he acknowledged that it was “only a draft” and that he could not closed “until that do not receive the go-ahead from the political leaders”.

But soon after, it was announced that he was returning to convene an extraordinary meeting of Papademos with emissaries of the EC, ECB and IMF.

This was due to that “some issues remain open” in the negotiation.

The representatives of the EC, ECB and IMF demand also drastic cuts in salaries and pensions, as well as 15,000 dismissals of officials until the end of the year, with the threat that if not ratify these measures, there will be a new loan of EUR 130 billion.

PHRASE

“I prefer poverty to the humiliation and slavery”
Jristos Magkuris,
a Deputy of the ruling PASOK party.