The economic and political developments topped today’s agenda between Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Government Vice-President Evangelos Venizelos. Venizelos asked for a change in the electoral law and attacked the opposition, saying that SYRIZA tells “easy lies” while the government tells “the hard truth.” According to PASOK sources, Venizelos asked for a change in the electoral law, by abolishing the 50-seat bonus for the majority party, after the upcoming election of the President of the Hellenic Republic in March. The result of this situation, noted Venizelos, is “to have a false and uneven picture, and can be strategically mislead as a nation.” Talking about the unrest of some parliamentary groups of the coalition parties, whose members often complain about government decisions as in the case of ENFIA, Venizelos explained that “the parliamentary groups are required – and I speak for PASOK but I imagine New Democracy as well – to communicate with each other, listen to the citizen’s anguish and transfer it to the government and parliament. We are reaching the end, and fatigue is obvious and understandable,” he added. “The question is what can be done to improve our lives and not what can lead us to collapse,” Venizelos explained. Speaking about the upcoming Troika audit in Athens in a few weeks, Venizelos was optimistic that “we can convince our lenders that we are in a reform path, because we have achieved both financial reform targets,” adding that in any case, the government will not give a false impression. Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis, who attended the two leaders’ meeting, briefed them on the informal Eurogroup last Friday.
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