Independent MP Dora Bakoyannis, a former foreign minister and high-ranking member of the main opposition New Democracy party, is apparently on the verge of founding her own political party. Bakoyannis revealed this in an interview in the Sunday issue of Kathimerini, saying that she intends to make the announcement on November 21st.
Bakoyannis said that her new party was not intended as a protest party but a: “proposal for governance” and she predicted that the current government of George Papandreou would be the last single-party government in the country. She said the political profile of her new party would be a: “movement covering a political and ideological area that is now not represented by anyone”.
She did not rule out the possibility that her brother Kyriakos Mitsotakis would follow her in the new political formation:“even though another political route is open to him”.
While criticising PASOK as “inadequate” , she also sharply criticised main opposition ND leader Antonis Samaras for his policy against the EU-IMF memorandum, stressing that at a crucial time for the country, a major party like ND should have supported the bailout package and restricted its disagreement to individual measures.
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