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Greek Elections: Party Leaders Try to Woo Undecided Voters

By Philip Chrysopoulos

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  KKE leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas speaks at the party’s election rally at Syntagma Square
Three days before Sunday’s election, and party leaders try to fish from the pool of undecided voters while preaching to the converted.
SYRIZA chief Alexis Tsipras spoke in Patras on Wednesday evening saying that Sunday’s election battle is the second referendum for the future of Greece. “The battle of September 20 is the second great referendum for the future of our people and our country… on Sunday we vote to reject the return of the old status quo of servitude, dependence, corruption and vested interests,” he said.
Tsipras urged people to vote because the result of the elections will decide on the
government of the next four years and therefore people must choose SYRIZA.
New Democracy will invite all parties to form a government of “cooperation, understanding and national responsibility” if it wins Sunday’s elections, party leader Vangelis Meimarakis said on Wednesday.
Meimarakis gave an interview at Gazi Square, a hotspot for young Athenians, urging Greek youth to look forward and vote for New democracy. “We cannot be divided any longer, or always keep talking about the old and the new. All together we can do better,” he said, urging the young to not abstain from the elections.
Discussing the economy, he attacked the previous SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government for imposing capital controls and putting hurdles on private investments. “There is no other way for reducing unemployment apart from investments,” Meimarakis said, stressing the need for a stable tax system.
To Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis gave a press conference on Wednesday presenting in detail the economic program of the party. To Potami candidates presented the party plan according to each one’s expertise, in areas such as economy, finance, energy, education and public administration.
Theodorakis said the voters’ dilemma is “whether we go back, or forward with Potami.” He urged voters to give the party a higher percentage, aiming at a 10 percent. “If you don’t have the size, you can’t take on the monsters. For this reason we need 30 seats,” he said.

To Potami chief urged party leaders to reach a political agreement based on three fundamental points: that elections will not be held for the next three years, that the country will meet its bailout program commitments and that the parties will break free of their “partisan armies.”
KKE leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas addressed a crowd of supporters at Syntagma Square on Wednesday evening saying that SYRIZA and New Democracy are the opposite poles of the bourgeois political system. He said that one of the two parties will form a coalition government with other “pro-memorandum” parties or that SYRIZA will form a coalition with New Democracy.
“The solution, the prospect for the people’s benefit, is the rift, the direct collision, so that people come to power and all means of production are socialized,” Koutsoumbas said.

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