As expected, PASOK has requested that former Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Kostas Karamanlis be summoned to testify in before the Committee to be tasked with investigating the bailout.
Furthermore, PASOK mentions that there are 8 distinct “sub periods” that need to be investigated and further names a number of foreign officials who must also be summoned, including European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker, Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem, ECB president Mario Draghi, IMF director Christine Lagarde, as well as their predecessors such as Jean-Claude Trichet and Dominique Straus-Kahn.
PASOK further argues in its statement that the Committee will provide an “ideal opportunity” to discuss many issues in public, while criticizing the government for “raising a protective barrier for the Karamanlis government”, which it considers responsible for exacerbating the crisis.
KKE: “The inquiry that SYRIZA asks for is an alibi for the bailouts”
The Communist Party has also reacted critically to the government’s proposal for the formation of Committee to determine what led Greece to the bailouts. In its statement, KKE reported that “with the proposal for the formation of a Committee to investigate the bailouts, the SYRIZA-ANEL government is looking for an alibi, to cover for the fact that it not only did not abolish the bailouts and its law, but on the contrary, it is preparing to extend it.
The statement further notes that the government is “consciously covering up the real causes that lead to the bailouts and the anti-popular measures, precisely because it is also moving on the same path”. KKE also argued that the ral cause of the bailout is “crisis of capitalist economy” and that the party will participate in the inquiry, if only to reveal the “truth” to the Greek people, “so that the people themselves may form a Committee against the EU, the capital and all the governments which serve them, past and present”.
