In the attack on Nikos Christodoulakis, two other former PASOK ministers, Philip Sachinidis and George Papaconstantinou, who took on a critical role in the “hot” field of the economy in the early years of the crisis, as a “first -time” party.
The two former ministers- one of George Papandreou’s trusted associates- openly disagree with the view of Mr. Christodoulakis (Minister of Costas Simitis), arguing that there was no other way from Greece’s appeal to the first European support mechanism in 2010. Christodoulakis means that, instead of appealing to institutional lenders, it would be preferable for the then PASOK government to have chosen the path of bankruptcy through its refusal to repay the state bonds that expired in May 2010. SYRIZA – the abolition of the Memorandums with an article and a law – but the roads, when they were ordered by Greek citizens to rule, both ND and SYRIZA failed to follow. “
Messrs. Sachinidis and Papaconstantinou also say that: “We also do not want to believe that Mr. Christodoulakis means that PASOK could continue to conceal Greece’s true budgetary position, as did the ND government by Kostas Karamanlis.
We would, however, like to recall that, without PASOK government with Prime Minister George Papandreou, the same road as Greece was followed by Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Cyprus. “
Citing specific financial data, they attempt to explain that: “It is not clear to us on the basis of which school of economic thinking would evaluate the 2010 budget, expansive rather than restrictive, when he envisaged a reduction in the budget deficit by 3.5 percentage points, and in the end of 2010, while all the total measures were reduced by 2010, PASOK’s government duties reached 15 billion euros in recession. billion euros.
The fierce attack on PASOK Institute’s current head, Nikos Christodoulakis ends with references to the juncture and the need to support PASOK’s journey:
“Unfortunately for some inside PASOK, then and now, reading the causes of the 2009-2010 crisis coincides with the reading of the defenders of Kostas Karamanlis’ actions, as well as that of SYRIZA, who worked with the Independent Greeks in the name of a supposedly progressive response.
It is not possible after all that has been done yet to talk about “other ways”. Our country will only leave the crisis behind it when it decides to see the causes of the crisis and accept reality and the inevitable – and painful – choices of that time. “
Earlier in the deconstruction of Christodoulakis, Haris Doukas had passed, accusing former PASOK minister and Insocal leader Nikos Christodoulakis of his statements “just acquitting the New Democracy of Kostas Karamanlis” and relieves it.
“Make a big mistake Mr. Christodoulakis with what you said about the Memorandum. 15 years later, you tell us that you discovered another path, which was found by neither the Spaniards, nor the Portuguese, nor the Irish, nor the Cypriots, nor the Greeks, in the face of the crisis, “said PASOK’s political council member and mayor of Athens. And he continues in the same tone, indirectly inviting Harilaou Trikoupis to take a clear position: “With such views you simply acquit the ND from its responsibilities and the worst” empty “the heroic struggle of the last PASOK government and its parliamentary group. I am sure that neither Mr Androulakis nor the executives of Insocial embrace these views. “
It should be noted that Nikos Christodoulakis, who today has the “steering wheel” of the PASOK Institute, Insocial, responding yesterday to One on whether there was “other way beyond the Memorandum”, he argued: “Yes, I think it existed. It is a very difficult discussion, especially for PASOK. Many executives were sacrificed to pull the cart over. They fought for it. But I believe that another road could be found less painful. ” According to the former minister, the 2008-2009 crisis was a “external deficit crisis” which then became a debt crisis. “
Former PASOK MP and Secretary Socrates Xynidis, on the occasion of Christodoulakis’ statements, attacked the “Semitic” of the party, arguing that: “After all this outbreak of the old modernists against George Papandreou, he should be in succession in 2004, without complying with the statutes. “
Mr. Christodoulakis also opposed Pavlos Geroulanou (former Secretary General of Information), George Petroulakis “identifying” the rhetoric of the head of the Institute with that of Adonis Georgiadis. As he said: “And in all, Mr. Nikos Christodoulakis came out to tell us that there was another way beyond the first memorandum, for the” money there “and that the 2010 budget was” expanding “. Of course he did not manage the hell he inherited. But it has certainties. And then we wonder why we don’t raise head. When our executives speak like Adonis. Mercy. Really mercy. “
Harilaou Trikoupi: Distances from both
Distances from Nikos Christodoulakis and Harry Doukas is taking on the subject by Harilaou Trikoupi. Sources by Harilaou Trikoupi, responding to how they comment on the issue that emerged show that they do not want to continue and stress that PASOK for the “historically recorded” position of the party entry into the memorandums “has a very clear view” of what happened in 2009. Papandreou “was catalytic, he did his best”. However, they point out that, “Now a big battle is being fought, everyone must stand up to the circumstances and not create issues. There is no need for a personal view to supply introversion, while we are in the process of upset and frontal confrontation with the ND. “