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In a totally unacceptable statement, the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Costas Karamanlis, called ticket dodges “scums of the society.”
“Those using the metro without buying a ticket should feel like dodgers and scums of the society,” baby face Karamanlis of the famous politicians family said in an interview with private Skai FM.
As expected, the statement triggered a storm of reactions with many Greeks to remind him the unpaid debts of his party New Democracy or his own problems with the prosecutor for 380,000 euros on his bank account he could not justify or how his cousin , ex Minister Mihalis Liapis, was caught by police for going around on fake license plates.
” When you don’t pay 1.40 euros for public transport you are scum. When you owe 200 millions to banks, 670,000 to the PPC and more over you steal electricity then you’re the party of the excellent [as Mitsotakis calls ND].”
Όταν ήρθε ο Καραμανλής - τέτοια μέρα το '74 - έφερε στον τόπο Ανάσταση κι Ελπίδα στον λαό. Η χούντα κατέρρευσε και η Δημοκρατία είχε πρόσωπο κι ηγέτη. Μια στιγμή για πάντα. Στέγνωσε την ψυχή του για να κυβερνήσει τους Έλληνες, πάντα υπερασπιστής των κοινωνικά αδυνάτων που είναι και η ουσία του καραμανλισμού. Τα χρόνια πέρασαν, οι πολιτικές κόντρες ηρέμησαν. Ο Καραμανλής πήρε τη θέση που του αξίζει στην ιστορία. Εθνάρχης! #Karamanlis #Karamanlismos https://www.instagram.com/p/B0SWN24ipmt/?igshid=rt52rkjoxb6d
“Following the disastrous fiscal policy adopted by the New Democracy government in 2009, Greece had a total deficit of 35 billion euros, combining primary deficit and interest payments.
In 2010, between domestic and foreign investors 40 billion euros of debt was maturing and would need to be refinanced.
Greece would need to find from the international investment community 75 billion euros to keep the state running, meet interest payments and stay solvent by repaying debt obligations.
The level of mismanagement and the lack of prudent planning was so striking that even following the projections of severe belt-tightening during the first programme, between 2010 and 2013 Greece would have needed more than 50 billion euros each year to stay solvent.
All this would have to be achieved in the wake of the Karamanlis administration being caught understating the fiscal disaster during 2009, when it had communicated to Brussels in September of that year that the deficit would reach 6 percent of GDP. In fact, it was at 8 percent already in August.
In 2009, Greece was facing a tsunami of debt obligations over the coming years and the misreporting by its government undermined its credibility globally.
This should have made it clear from the start why Greece went bankrupt a decade ago. But Greeks were fed numerous conspiracy theories to deflect responsibility from the Karamanlis administration and to help boost others’ political careers. Antonis Samaras and Alexis Tsipras later became Greek prime ministers after they both advocated seemingly pain-free solutions to Greece’s problems.
Greece has paid a heavy price for its antics in 2009, the populists that followed and the early decisions of key eurozone politicians, which were dictated by their own domestic political considerations. After a long and painful period, the developments regarding Greek debt show that some signs of normality are emerging.”
The publication of Yiannis Papathanasiou’s new book, “8 Months,” by Livanis, on the period he served as finance and economy minister in the conservative government of Costas Karamanlis (2004-09), has reignited the debate regarding responsibility for Greece’s fiscal collapse in 2009-10.
In short, the book represents a fresh effort by Karamanlis allies to pass the blame onto his Socialist successor, George Papandreou. The issue has been analyzed repeatedly – occasionally with some objectivity, more often than not with selective use of evidence and monumental inaccuracies.
A report sent by Bank of Greece analysts to its governor, Giorgos Provopoulos, on October 6, 2009, which was just two days after PASOK’s electoral victory, sheds a glaring light on Karamanlis’s real fiscal legacy. The authors’ conclusion, presented in italics for emphasis, was that on the basis of the available data and developments, “we are facing an unprecedented fiscal derailment,” which, they said, “could only be explained to a very small degree by a slump in economic activity.” It is “absolutely certain,” they added, that the country’s fiscal position “is unsustainable.
