Main opposition party leader George Papandreou addressed a party rally in the northern city of Alexandroupoli on Tuesday evening, stressing that “the time has come to leave behind the decline and to place the country on the course to national recovery”.
Papandreou said that PASOK “is determined to confront force that keeps the country behind,” adding that “we do not owe anything to anyone and we are only accountable to the people.”
The PASOK leader further said that in the elections the “two parties and two candidates for the prime ministership alone are not in conflict, but two diametrically opposite political conceptions” and underlined that “we are optimistic because we know what we have and we know how to utilise it.”
Papandreou also focused on “green development” and pointed out that “Greece can become an international leader in providing traditional and alternative tourist services.”
He said that the New Democracy party government was “never interested in utilising the country’s major advantages but only in sharing wealth with a few of its own people.”
Papandreou stressed that what “is necessary for an exit from the morass of decline is a new leadership that will provide a new form of governance”.
He also said that a PASOK government will guarantee a dynamic foreign policy that will once again provide prestige and strength on an international level, public free and qualitative education for all, a new and fair redistribution of wealth and a new social state that will function in the interests of citizens.