It is crucial that the PM ruled out the prospect of heading a minority government [supported ad hoc by MPs from other parties].
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras revealed he will seek a parliamentary vote of confidence if Defence Minister Panos Kammenos withdraws his trust.
Having served the purposes of the prime minister, the leader of the Independent Greeks, Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, is being discarded and pushed aside.
A country cannot be governed with MPs switching parties or abandoning their own and with promises to wandering MPs.
Greece was fertile ground because expenditures on pharmaceuticals skyrocketed and the entire medicines network before the bailout had been through a period of provocative over-consumption.
A case regarding the mismanagement of public funds in the healthcare sector was used by the government to implicate almost the entire opposition in a corruption case.
FAZ concludes that the Tsipras administration has yet to come up with a long-term economic plan and has not even taken fundamental decisions in that direction.
For foreign investors and political players, a second general election in 2020, due to a failure to elect the next President, is the worst possible development, due to the accompanying political, and consequently economic instability.
The government’s constant talk of handouts has stirred greater social demands, which combined with electoral fiscal imprudence can easily reverse what the country and its people have achieved until now.
Clearly, the eagerness of the government to tout the prosecution of a pawn shop chain owner is part of its tactic of instrumentalising the judiciary and exploiting any kind of alleged scandal.
The 'social dividend' does not derive from the economy’s 'super-performance' as the PM claims, but from the destructive over-taxation that saps the income of the vast majority of Greek citizens.
'The motivations of the pre-electoral period should not lead us into adventures that are analogous to what we experienced and paid for in 2015,' Simitis stated,
Protracted political uncertainty and all that accompanies it may shoo away even those who believe that bargains are to be found in Greece.
'The increase in the debt of the General Government in 2018 is due to the creation of a cash buffer, part of which will be used in 2019,' the finance ministry noted.
Centeno said that the lending “institutions” trust Greece as regards continued implementation of reforms and meeting commitments in the coming years, so as to become a success story.
Representatives of “the new” in politics, who are supposedly fighting for renewal in the country’s political life, come from the mould of the most vulgar and detrimental old-party politics that the country has seen in over forty years.
The government’s stance is indicative. One day it urges pensioner to file applications for back pay, and the next, realising that its pledges are unfeasible, it hastens to bring them back to reality.
Already, within the government one sees other clashes, related to the priorities of economic and social policy, as well as to the particular electoral strategies of government cadres.
Obviously, all governments internationally use black payments for what they view as national objectives. Whether these objectives actually serve national interests depends on the motives, clear judgment, and integrity of those who manage the secret funds.
It is by now obvious that the only thing that concerns Mr. Tsipras is to extend as much as possible his stay in power. That is why he had no dilemma in choosing between Kotzias and Kammenos when they clashed openly at the cabinet meeting.