Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos told his cabinet ministers that the early parliamentary elections will take place on May 6th 2012. Papademos revealed the date of elections at the last meeting of the cabinet, Skai TV reported.
The prime minister will meet the president at 5:00 pm and brief him on the official reason for the snap polls. At 8:00 pm Papademos is scheduled to address the public.
The upcoming elections consist a nightmare for Greece’s lenders, IMF, EU, ECB.
However, ex-banker Papademos is just a caretaker, non-elected Prime Minister who took office in November 2011, after George Papandreou was forced to abandon the office after pressure by his own deputies due to a failed proposal for a euro-referendum.
Lucas Papademos took office apparently in order to ‘secure’ the second bailout worth 130 billion euro for Greece.
Even though there were calls by political parties and the public for early elections in December, the economic situation with the first Troika programme to have failed and the first-bailout tranches on hold that was impossible.
Furthermore, debt-ridden and recession-hit Greeks are more than eager to express their discontent about the strict austerity programme imposed by the Troika.
Penultimate paragraph ‘died’ a bit… 😉
thanks! it revided and extended
I could have bet on the 6th, because of the Marfin case.
your memory capacity and association power is impressive.
Please tell. Because I don’t know what the Marfin case is.
you don’t? 3 people were killed after ‘protesters’ hurled fire bombs in Marfin bank in 2010.
I didn’t make that connection, probably because that was on the 5th of May 2010.
More striking about this election date is that it will be on the same day as the run-off for the French presidency. Guess what will grab the international headlines? Coincidence?
our elections results will come one hour earlier than the French 🙂
So four weeks to found Loukanikos’ Party, in Freiburg there was once a Party with a cat as candidate called “Kater Carlo” but i’ve no idea if the Greek election laws are as easy as in Germoney.
Freiburg was always original.