Main opposition PASOK leader George Papandreou addressed an election campaign rally in Iraklio, on the island of Crete, on Friday evening calling on all Greek voters that “want the country to change course” to vote for his party.
Papandreou said “It is time to leave behind, once and and for all, all that has led the country to decay, corruption, fear and to margin.
It is time to put the country on the track of progress, justice and growth,” the PASOK leader said.
The main opposition leader asked for “a vote of confidence and a strong mandate for absolute parliamentary majority, in order to fully implement the PASOK programme which guarantees the country’s new course.”
Referring to the first 100 days of his government, if his party wins the elections, Papandreou conceded that Greece “will not change in 100 days but what the PASOK programme can do is give the country the time it needs to react, to take a breath, to exit from the intensive care unit, in order to be able to make the next step.”
“An indispensable condition for this step,” he added, “is the establishment of a well-governed state which will stand by the side of citizens.”