In contrast to the recent elections in Europe (where has always won the right because the left was split into pieces and it didn't have a real leader), Greece has chosen yesterday and decided to turn the page. George Papandreou (pictured), leader of the Socialist Party (PASOK), won the general election, taking 160 seats out of 300 in the National Assembly.So Greece wakes up with a new prime minister to whom it entrust two main issues: the fight against corruption and the economic crisis. A difficult challenge as the new premier immediatly admitted.
George will be the third prime minister son of the "dynasty" after his father Andreas Papandreou who founded PASOK after the dictatorship of the colonels and after his grandfather George, first prime minister of the country after the liberation from German occupation in 1944.
But being part of a dynasty will not help his government. Papandreou, however, is well aware of the problems he's going to face and he is willing to change his country and his party. PASOK, today, is completely different from the socialist / lavish movement raised by his father after the end of the military dictatorship in 1974.
The Socialist Party Papandreou is driving today, it's changing and it is pretty different from the rest of the left in Europe that does not seem able to find a new attitude in the contemporary world.
He took a sociology decree in America, where he was born and raised, and today Papandreou is trying to apply his studies to the management of politics and economics. Right on the economic front Papandreou is betting everything. "There will be nothing easy" - he said - "But I'll always be honest in front of the Greeks."
"Today we started building the Greece, the one we deserve and that we have," said the leader of PASOK, but he admitted the situation is "difficult" for the country. "The road will not be easy and we still have much work to do. With a collective effort, we will be able to solve problems," he said.
In his first message after the election, Papandreou has called on all Greeks to contribute actively in the difficult path out of the crisis. He wants to face the "moral issue", without which any economic or social reform would be inadequate for the needs of the country.
His message should give hope not only to Greece but also to the European center-left forces that, one by one, came out in the various elections resized: just think about France, Germany or England left parties, increasingly in crisis.
Papandreou has the credentials to help his citizens, who after years of economic growth now have a debt which is second only to Italy (and therefore is not at all a good result), and can lend a hand to the left in the world, indicating the road to face reality and come back to win.
Greece vota por el cambio de Papandreou M. Antonia Sanchez-Vallejo from El Pais
Sans surprise, la Grèce passe à gauche from Le figaro
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