Greece would financially collapse if no stable government emerges from June-17 elections. The warning comes from somebody who knows and has good contacts to aid giving powers. The warning comes from former Greek prime minister Lucas Papademos who worked as vice president of the European Central Bank until 2010. Papademos served as PM of the provisional government in Greece, Nov 2011- April 2012 and who’s only ‘political’ achievement was to take the country through the Greek Bond Swap and to sign the second bailout agreement after the first had failed with a powerful Big-Bang sound.
Greece’s public finances could collapse as early as next month, leaving salaries and pensions unpaid unless a stable government emerges from the June 17 election, according to Lucas Papademos, the technocrat prime minister who left office after this month’s inconclusive vote.
Mr Papademos warned that conditions were deteriorating faster than expected with cash flow likely to turn negative in early June amid a sharp fall in tax revenues and a loosening of spending controls during two back-to-back election campaigns.
Mounting anxiety that Greece is headed for further political instability and a possible exit from the euro has prompted many Greeks to postpone making tax payments, and has also accelerated outflows of deposits from local banks.
Athens bankers estimate that more than €3bn of cash withdrawn since the May 6 election has been stashed in safe-deposit boxes and under mattresses in case the country is forced to readopt the drachma. (Further reading CNN)
