Greece: "We have won crucial battles" says G. Papandreou

Prime Minister George Papandreou called on all citizens to participate in the November 7 local government elections "because it is a vote of responsibility for the country, for our country and local administration."
Addressing a rally at a hotel's convention centre in the northwestern city of Ioannina on Tuesday, Papandreou said "the salvation and reshaping of our country is an affair and a decision of all of us. I am certain that the citizens, in their overwhelming majority, willl confirm and will strengthen the wind of change that is blowing in our country."
Referring to the economy, Papandreou said: "Many are watching our efforts and successes amazed. We have won and are still winning crucial battles but we have not yet won the war. We acquired reliability. The right to raise our stature and to protect the interests of our country. As we did in the past days as well, at the European Union's Summit, where we averted the adoption of an unacceptable proposal, for those countries in the European Union having great fiscal problems, as we, to be deprived of the democratic right of their vote."ANa-MPA
In another point in his address, the prime minister underlined that "we are faithful to our slogan 'either we change or we sink'." And he went on to say "and on the contrary, the size and intensity of the crisis was and is for us a further reason for us to change quicker. And this is what we did and we are doing."
Papandreou also referred to the latest terrorist acts in Athens, saying that "we condemn unequivocally and we stand merciless, merciless towards whoever attempts, in vain, to disrupt with terrorist acts social peace and to deal a blow at the image of our country internationally in a particularly difficult period.
"For us the security of the citizen is a right of the citizen. Security in his life, his work, his daily life. The government and the relevant services will continue the systematic, organised effort, that has given specific results recently."
Source: www.Express.gr