ND will invite all parties to form cooperation government if it wins

September 17, 2015
Written by E.Tsiliopoulos

New Democracy will invite all the parties to form a government of "cooperation, understanding and national responsibility" if it wins Sunday's elections, ND leader Vangelis Meimarakis said on Wednesday.

"We need to build relations of trust between us," he said, talking to young people around Gazi Square, a clubbing hotspot in Athens. "We cannot be divided any longer, or always keep talking about the old and the new. All together we can do better," he said and urged young people not to abstain from the elections.

He also referred to what he called "leftist myths" and noted that the poorer social groups were those worst hit under leftist regimes, using free university education as an example.

Meimarakis made it clear that he intends to abolish the newly-introduced 23 pct VAT for private education and stressed that he would not make empty promises.

Discussing the economy, he attacked the previous SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government for imposing capital controls that he said had added additional liquidity problems to those that already existed and warned that the risk of grexit had not yet been eliminated entirely. The markets were waiting to see what government will form after the elections, he said.

"There is no other way for reducing unemployment apart from investments," Meimarakis added, highlighting the need for a stable tax system.

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