Speech by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the Parliamentary Group of the New Republic
PRESS PM
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Ladies and gentlemen,
We are at the most critical time for our country in recent decades. But beware: It is "the most critical," not because we expect long and difficult hours. But for the opposite reason: because many sacrifices overcame the most difficult and we are close to actually do things that we all like always, but most considered the "unthinkable" as much recently.
The Greece is not, in any sense, as there was two years ago. We had to exit the euro. And now everyone welcomes the unprecedented fiscal consolidation achieved.
-The primary surpluses that we did and will continue to pull in the coming years.
The social-dividend return to society. For the first time without borrowing.
-The recession ended and a recovery approaching ...
-The major structural changes promoted and restore the confidence of international markets to Greece ... All this seemed unbelievable two years ago!
For many! Outside of Greece and through ... But now, it is 'data'! And for all these congratulates Greece everyone else. But the dispute this fact, some within our country! Who? The representatives of misery, the nostalgia of yesterday, the preachers of division. Those for enemy has designated the country's success!
Indeed, the country suffered a lot and still suffers ... But hardly passed anymore. And now it has only "upwards".Indeed our people have suffered too much ... But Argentina, as some would have, we have not! No burnt our towns, not closed our banks, not slumped in exuberant domestic currency, we were not excluded for years from markets, unable to import fuel, food, medicines and spare parts, condemned to poverty for decades without precedent and without visible outlet . All these spared!
And I'm just an optimist, I'm sure that soon, in a few years, we will be back to the same standard of living they had before the crisis! But much more solid, healthy foundation for our economy, for our democracy and for our social cohesion.
Some tell us: What can we do these achievements? Prosper only numbers! With people what? The answer is simple: It now began to prosper numbers. But when undertaken two years ago , did not prosper nor numbers! note: We first care for people, not for their numbers ... Why skits society interest. No economic indicators ... But when sinking numbers and indicators that are supposedly "good" to people? We say it is the worst premonition of what will happen in a moment and humans, when sinking numbers!
For remember: Before the crisis for years "flourishing" and people into a false prosperity with borrowed! And after the crisis erupted and began to unhappiness people. Well, now is the opposite: the economy stabilized and will shortly begin to feel it all. To feel it, feel it enough ... The fact that there is now stabilize the economy, that all point now where I finished the "below" and enter the "only upwards" from now on, everyone understands what it means: That little slowly, will have growth, more jobs, more income, more opportunities for everyone.
That's why I told you that our country is at a critical turning point, a historic crossroads ... never been so much in so little time. In one month from today we will close the two years. Never were so shrunken reforms. Never corrected so deep distortions, so long entanglements and so soon. And now that the country has avoided the worst, now that everyone intuitively - and correctly - that the country page turns, changing times. Now give him some "for everything" fight, not let her get up. To turn the back, to the crisis! So we are opposed to any bold radical reform ...
They want us to go back to their understandings! So I bothered so much that we went to the markets ...
Until now we were told that we had, supposedly, "deliver the country to moneylenders - lenders'! And now we suddenly say the opposite: that we had to go to "borrow" our, until now the complainants, and to borrow at interest rate of 1.5%. Bothered we left the markets alone ... They did not understand that they finished borrowed from the Memorandum! As they did not understand until now that borrows from those they call "loan sharks" with low interest rates unimaginable for most countries of Europe and the world! Generally not understand anything! Or do you not understand ...
One is the truth: We entered the Memorandum because we threw out the markets and started us lend our partners putting harsh conditions. And now completed and this debt and we got our goals. So ends and the Memorandum.We accept markets as a reliable country, thus ending the embargo and led us in the Memorandum. And the debate on the sustainability of our debt, which will be completed in the autumn. So ends permanently lending crisis and the era memoranda, overall!
This promised so we did! Two years ago we promised that we will not allow the country to leave the euro ... And we did! At the same time the nostalgia of yesteryear wanted to get out of the euro. They are not crossed. And then began the internal discord. Others with the drachma, most ... Less the euro. All, however, uneasy!
Instead, we promised to pull Greece out of the crisis as soon as possible. And within two years, leading the country except memoranda.
Yes, mistakes were made along the way. These errors corrected. And we will correct everything. Yes, there were many injustices. These injustices begin to be restored. And will restore all. Yes, in 2012 we found Greece in a desperate situation. And we had to choose:
-To let it slide down to destruction or to choose the uphill test. We chose the hill! We tried to get this country out of the ordeal as quickly as possible. And within two years, Greece turned page ...
And the nostalgia of yesteryear promise today, what exactly? To remove what? Understandings already leave behind!
Why exactly is the problem: That ending understandings. That we leave behind. And what will they do now without tearing memoranda and report? What promise? What would you suggest? What will be the SYRIZA without ... "barbarians," now?
Emerged during the crisis. And the longer understand: They will disappear when you pass judgment! Emerged denouncing understandings. And will disappear when there will be no memoranda. Since they feed. Since the crisis fed. And the enemy have been developing.
So I try to bring the country to crisis. Nostalgic for the past, because they represent the last, represent all these pathologies, now overcome. Nostalgic era, where the masked burnt our towns, pillaged when the promiscuity of guilds, when extreme groups paralyze the economic life when vested interests did what they wanted, when the state was sinking deficits when our universities were delivered undocumented and had been outbreaks of lawlessness, when illegal immigrants entered the country unimpeded and calling upon others to come! These nostalgic! They see that anymore overcome permanently. And they want to bring back. There want to go back to the country.
Turn the page for that country. And they want to be left Greece stuck in yesterday!
They want to return to Greece in chaos. We do Greece a normal country. Restore its position in Europe. We removed the uncertainty about the euro. Neutralization deficits, restore the credibility of international and internal stability. He leads us on to Greece tomorrow!
We guarantee stability, leading ahead. Those who insist on a standstill, leading back to yesterday. They have not and they know tomorrow. So I do not want nor Greece have tomorrow! They drive investment, but no longer passes the ... Investment continually come. Invite people to rise up, but now no one listens to them ... Remember how many times urged people to overthrow the government. And every time gather more and more few ...
That is why the country is currently the most critical moment of it. Why paved the way for tomorrow.
And those who do not want people trying to block it, give the last battle to frustrate! They give the "pro everything" race to bring us back to the crisis overcome, the chaos from which we escaped, the understandings we leave permanently.
What does country without deficits? It means first of all that as a People, as a country recovering its dignity. But the SYRIZA not want this! And so it promises money not there, without telling us where to find them, who will lend ... Only there's no one to lend.
What does country competitiveness? It means that Greece regains her freedom. Why there is no liberty, if a country does not produce anything and introduces everything. But the SYRIZA it wants! So I want to turn away investment ...
What does country with dignity? It means that Greece is no longer dependent on their creditors, make debt sustainable, and recover the confidence of international markets, as any normal country. But the SYRIZA not want this. So I dreaming new understandings ... But no new Memoranda! As there will be no new austerity measures!
What does country prosperous? It means that Greece ushered in Development! Why only the development produces jobs, opportunities for all, for all income and revenue for the state But the SYRIZA not want this ...
And now that contradicted the predictions of trying to destabilize the country's path to tomorrow. SYRIZA is synonymous with instability. Its flag, as its basic objective, the destabilization and instability. But it will pass ...
Dear Friends,
The medium we are discussing today in the House, provided that the country will grow rapidly over the coming years.
-Provision for recovery this year, after six years of recession.
-Anticipated net growth rate of 2.9% of the time in 2015.
-Anticipated net growth of 3.7% next year, 2016.
-It is envisaged that by 2018 would reduce unemployment by 10 points or more. You know what that means? That over 550,000 unemployed will find work!
And you know something else? These are the more modest the more 'moderate' forecasts. But you saw the last two years, doing better than the official projections.
You know what they all mean? That by 2020 we will recover to pre-crisis our standard of living. That until then unemployment will fall below the average in Europe. That have been put on the road, not only to return to the levels of prosperity that we had before, but to grow and then even better, even faster, even more.
Enough - beware - do not do no wrong in between. Enough to stay on our way, the path to stability and steadily we carve. And that will be judged at the next election. And local and regional elections.
-SYRIZA provided that will not achieve the Budget 2013 and denied,
-SYRIZA provided that in the first quarter will collapse the Budget 2014 and denied
-SYRIZA envisaged that it will take new austerity measures for 2013 and 2014 and was denied again and again,
-SYRIZA predicted that there will be no primary surplus in 2013 and that, if any, will not be able to give social dividend. Denied once again.
-SYRIZA provided that will not get in Markets. Disproved.
Today fears that Greece actually obstructs Development!
And gives the "ultimate fight" the "last battle" to destabilize the country, to thwart the all to come back to the need for lenders to return to chaos.
That is why we are now at a critical moment. Because we go out for the good of the vicious cycle of crisis, deficits, and the memoranda of the recession. Because coming out of your sick yesterday. And the forces of SYRIZA - yesterday, today, tomorrow, why remain the same - give the ultimate battle to hold us back, let us reroll the crisis. They will not pass!
At this critical moment, we ask the Greek people to give faction in our power to permanently dislodge the country from the quagmire. To give our faction strength to go on tomorrow.
Until two years ago, this tomorrow seemed distant and elusive. In the intervening two years, we did so much and changed so much, that tomorrow a strong, stable and prosperous Greece in Europe, tomorrow a new Greece within a new Europe, no longer distant, is immediate. No longer is "impossible dream" is entirely possible.
We ask the Greek people to give us the strength to overcome the last resistance of nostalgic yesterday of shame, of yesterday glued to decline and make the leap into tomorrow. We all want, we all expect that all we see anymore ... In future we deserve, you owe it to the future to our children.
The 1974 lineup of Constantine Karamanlis, stabilize democracy in this place! Then many considered it incredible that he could never Greece to obtain stable parliamentary institutions and orderly democratic life. Yet Google!
In 1981 his party, our party of Constantine Karamanlis, have established Greece as a full member of the European Union. Then many people considered unthinkable. Yet Google!
Today, our faction, loyal to the historical libraries, do it again actually something that until recently many thought unthinkable: Greece Puts the path of growth with competitiveness and extroversion, the path of prosperity and opportunities for all, gives Greece a role in of opens roads to get the energy to Greece to gain power and influence far beyond our borders.
What some people do not want some scares. So I ask the Greek people to give us the strength to overcome the last resistance and move to New Greece!
Dear Friends,
I want first of all and above all, thank you all the members of our party, New Democracy. You gave the toughest race in the last two years. You tested more than everyone and stay upright. Thanks to you we got here. And we are currently the most stable, the most compact power within the House. Despite the pressures and despite the trials, the New Republic is the pillar of stability of our democracy, is to guarantee the path to tomorrow. It is, above all, your own achievement. And your value you entered this fight with an upright conscience and love, with a passion for the Motherland ... And won on behalf of the whole country!
I want to ask you at this critical time to give the game to the last minute, throughout Greece. As the last minute, to turn around the country and do what you know, what you need.
Remember that our worst enemy is the looseness! Not to go some to vote at all, or vote with a sense of looseness.Explain the relevance of this moment. The criticality of the following day. The criticality of the coming months. That nothing is "given", nothing is "predetermined" that the country has started to stand up, but very small errors can make even now a lot of damage. And that everyone keeps their hands to vote to not allow it to become such a loss. For every loss, there would simply back into crisis ... will lead to much worse than what we had so far. That's why we insist that the critical moment as a country. Because now it's up to us to make the leap forward. But up to us to relapse back. And the latter only by the looseness of voting may occur anymore. This must forestalling ...
I expect you to give battle honorably, strong, confident. Supporting the practice lineup and options. What I expect from you. Homeland This waiting you. And now that the situation is beginning to clear now that paved the way for the country, and the Greek people begin to hope, now the victory is in our hands.
SYRIZA tried to create a wave overturning of everything. Ultimately, it failed to create a single 'stream' favor.Populism for the first time losing ground. SYRIZA tried to create electricity and sink into the swamp!
Unfortunately this is SYRIZA today: the image of stagnation, the representation of stagnation, the same quagmire in which he had stuck to Greece for decades. And now surpasses the ...
They see it and his people believe. Everyone understands. Will lift tons and foster polarization, will try again to cause confusion and division. Dividing the like, not proliferation. But he can not speak for tomorrow, not himself tomorrow, so it will only succeed ultimately is to accentuate his own confusion and internal polarization.
To remind the world:
-They have the audacity and shake our finger! Who? Those executives and MPs defend contracted terrorists convicted for murder. And they never booed!
-They have the audacity and talk. Who? Those candidate MEP them with statements questioned the Treaty of Lausanne. Heard some voices to delete it. And finally evacuated activist Sabiha Suleiman.
Without ever explaining why. No need. All figured ...
- They have the audacity to talk about the great visions of the Left. We disagree with the Left, our ideology is completely different and we are proud of our ideas. But there exists in Europe Left that inspires respect. All you have nothing to do with her. There was once the Italian Left condemning terrorists. Where did rallies everywhere in Italy to isolate them morally and politically. They do not defend, do not caressed.
But the SYRIZA has nothing to do with them all. The vision is a nightmare for any modern society, European.Nightmare that all European peoples have overcome. Now overreach and here in Greece. About time!
-They have the audacity to call us in dialogue, when permanently unleash incredibly divisive sermons and tirades.
-They have the audacity to speak and dialogue when they themselves do not dare to go to the European forums.Go on elections for European offices apousiazontas from all discussions.
And where to go? And what to say to Europe?
-That ... "is not a fetish" the euro? They want to get out of NATO?
That Europe is ... "imperialist power"?
Who will show as allies? Kommatidia margin from different countries!
Some of them voted against supporting Greece in national parliaments ...
And some others coming, if possible, even from occupied Cyprus! They want to add together the forces of the margin of Europe. Not to help build a new Europe. The party the benefit of their care. Only. So I did not support any reform. So I constantly try to divide the world ...
We are uniting the Greeks! Everyone! Over and over ... parties unite all Greeks with the steady, sure voice of the New Republic. But it gives to those who divide and divide ... We are opening the way for tomorrow! But it gives those who remain stuck in yesterday ... We stabilize the country, and drive forward. But it gives those who want to reroll into chaos.
Our strength is the Greek people, who wants to detach himself, finally, the country from the quagmire. Always wanted. Now begins to believe! For the first time he thinks ...
This is the great power of Greece: To believe in the Greek forces!
And getting his fortunes in his hands. To overcome fatalism. To overcome the "not made here such things."Everything can be done in Greece! All we can do. Enough to believe in ourselves and to remain united.
And now we are very close to achieving the leap into tomorrow. Already today, the leading power, the GOP won once again ranked first in student elections. By far ... And sends a message to the 18 to 25 and the May. The GOP once again lies ahead. Although hooded hordes came and did again in two three schools. They stole the polls, beat and sent to hospital teachers. Only now are individual episodes sporadically. Where was the old regime to all campuses. So perhaps, to remind us of the nightmare they represent. And we finally - to champion our youth - finally leave behind.
We ask the Greek people to believe in himself, to stay united and give us the strength to make the leap into tomorrow.
Already yesterday we announced the most sweeping constitutional reform ever made in Greece over the past decades. To make our country a modern democratic state, by modern European standards. Next week, we announce our development plan. For the first time our country will gain a comprehensive plan for development in all sectors, to give opportunities to all Greeks, to produce prosperity for all. Without statism, without bureaucracy, without watertight and intermediaries ... Never before has there been such a comprehensive plan for the regeneration of the country - and development and state. Already we reform an entire cosmogony. And conclude with the true transformation of Greece. We ask the Greek people to give us the strength to make it happen.
This is the most critical time in decades for our country. After so many sacrifices, tomorrow is in our hands.Tomorrow, the dream can become reality. No illusions. Not the obsessions that led to nightmares. No permanent lie.No misery. No strategy instability ...
The dream of a modern European Greece. The dream of a strong and competitive Greece. The dream of a democratic state, with modern institutions. The dream of economic development with social cohesion. The dream of a society that provides opportunities for creative Greeks and releases the enormous productive potential of its people.
This dream is in our hands. Ask people to give us the strength to make it happen. We owe it to our history, we owe it to ourselves, we owe it to our children. Request with arguments, with optimism, looking people in the eye.
Looking ahead, when others only looking back. And the people he knows, hears, understands ...
And to be sure, the match, we will respond!
Thank you very much
