The main opposition New Democracy (ND) party lashed out at the government on Friday, rejecting the medium-term programme unveiled by Finance Minister Yiorgos Papakonstantinou.
"The attack on the most vulnerable section of society has taken up horrifying dimensions while nothing is being done to reduce unemployment," Mihelakis stressed.
The ND spokesman left no room for a consensus accusing the government of seeking to table the medium-term programme for vote in Parliament as a single article.
"The government's 'all or nothing' attitude shows no will for consensus and confirms its already known blackmailing arrogance," he stressed.
The central committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), in an announcement on Friday on Prime Minister George Papandreou's televised address, said that "a proclamation was not necessary for George Papandreou to call on (main opposition New Democracy) ND party, (Popular Orthodox Rally leader George) Karatzaferis, (Democratic Alliance party leader Dora) Bakoyiannis and the other wiling, to support him more openly in the war he is escalating against the people." KKE also called on the people to organise and reverse "their barbaric policy and the power of monopolies."
Tsipras accused Papandreou of "speaking with the voice of the creditors", and warned that the Memorandum policy was destroying the economy and the small and medium social strata.
"Why will you succeed today where you failed yesterday?" Tsipras asked, and charged that the tabling of the Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy Framework for vote in parliament as a single Article was an "unprecedented coercion of parliament".
Opposition Popular Orthodox Rally (LA.O.S) party leader George Karatzaferis on Friday emphasised, from Parliament, that measures in the latest austerity and restructuring package announced by the government late on Thursday do not make the external debt more viable.
"...additional tax measures are not the solution," Karatzaferis said, speaking during debate on the mid-term fiscal strategic programme.
Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis said that the Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy unveiled by the government "set the seal on the impasse created by government policy".
He said implementing the programme would lead to higher unemployment and deepen the recession, adding more horizontal cuts to wages and pensions and more taxes looting the income of the poorest social classes and honest tax-payers.
The President of Democratic Alliance, Dora Bakoyiannis is asking for immediate elections after the announcement of the Medium Term Programme . Mrs Bakoyiannis emphasized that the country is now without a steering wheel and the government has actually collapsed.
She said that the policy of increase of new taxes chosen by the government is unfair and unreasonable, while ND ”is transmitting its fantasies across Europe, where the European leaders are vainly trying to bring them down to reality.”
In conclusion, Mrs Bakoyianni claimed that none of the parties can negotiate the necessary changes and reforms on its own.
sources: ANA-MPA
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