Supporting the new government in its negotiations is a national duty, Former Minister and New Democracy MP Nikos Dendias said in an interview to newspaper “Agora.”
“It is our national duty to support the Greek government in its negotiation efforts, as in the implementation of reforms, if it dares carry them out,” Dendias was quoted as saying, adding however that “we ought to recognize that the [previous] government of Antonis Samaras also negotiated, and toughly so.”
Asked to comment on the possibility that the current government might achieve a better result in negotiations, Dendias said, “Let us not hide behind our fingers, we ought to recognize that in that case there will truly be an issue over how [things] were handled – especially the last few months before the former government’s fall – by those who had assumed the specific responsibility of negotiating.”
Dendias said that “New Democracy suffered a great strategic defeat,” attributing it partly to the party’s distancing from its ideological core, social liberalism.
(source: ana-mpa)
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