Katsanevas: In another country, Mr Simitis would have been referred to a special court ARTHROSCRIPTION

Kostas Simitis was the oldest prime minister in the history of the country. His eight-year term (1996-2004) has been extended. During this period, cases of maladministration and corruption have multiplied. At the time, Simitis, his main institutional partner, made him his right hand, permanent head of the main ministries of economy and defense and his predecessor, was now incarcerated for mismanagement by Yiannos Papantoniou.

In his time as prime minister Mr Simitis, corruption rushed into the courtyard and its surroundings and this was noticed by the honest leaders of the ruling party at the time, like me personally. At a private meeting at Maximos Mansion in 1998, as a PASOK MP in the second district of Athens with 65,000 votes in the 1996 elections, I pointed out the problem of corruption and suggested establishing institutions and controls for its strike.

He became furious with me and it was the first time I saw him waking up.

"Go to the Prosecutor" he shouted angrily. I responded and we were undergoing serious retaliation. Then the secretary and his guards intervened to calm us down. Since then, I have refused any personal meeting with him.

My point of view on corruption and interference, without reference to my personal confrontation with the Prime Minister, presented them to the PASOK parliamentary group meetings.

In Mega Channel I was interviewed Dimitris Kambourakis in his show "Bitter chocolate" and was fired immediately afterwards, with the abolition of his broadcast. My interview with Ant1 on the same subject, was cut in the air and the reporter who interviewed me was banged head against the wall!

My articles on corruption have only been published in opposition newspapers.

The government "parrots" they were then instructed to write that I tell them why Mr. Simitis he did not make me a minister. Misfortune. Anyone who is trying to become a minister at all costs does not say so annoyingly to his leader who depends on his ministry.

The main question that remains is whether or not Mr. Simitis as prime minister, knew and how much for the party. If he did not know it, he would deserve an absurd reward and not only. But Mr. Simitis is just a fool.

The scandal and the "Euroclbad"

O main "most appropriate", as it was called systemic opinion polls and the media that supported it, is largely responsible for the current disaster of our country.

With her scandal of the stock market bubble has led hundreds of businessmen and citizens to follow their incentives to place their savings in Sophocleous Street. H "Greece strong" and o & # 39; Upgrade & # 39; propagated, proved in fact the opposite, in the most tragic way.

Protect the Germans and the establishment, without a referendum, as stipulated by the Constitution, our membership in the euro with gold The girlfriend of Goldman Sachs. So he opened the gates of hell.

With the same "Girlfriend" has submerged tens of billions of euros of debt with intelligent market divides, and in particular swaps, with which he immediately accused us of our entry with billions of fictitious debts.

O crippled, distant, "modernist" Costas SimitisDuring its many years of service, it abandoned Greek domestic production, reduced agriculture, livestock and industry and did not build a large factory.

It favored importers, increased the cost of public works, broke the public and municipalities with mbadive appointments of inactive employees, skyrocketed the cost of health care with the buzz of private circuits.

It has strengthened social security by granting excessive rights to lobbiessuch as reducing the retirement age to hundreds of thousands of public teachers from 60 to 58 years, as well as to the military, to which they also added extra points when they derailed.

He expanded parasitism, patted businessmen-pests, middle-clbad compatriots, and goldsmiths-and fostered the interconnection of the clandestine transaction, with a focus on public works, the media, and sports. Rich himself, with his houses and villas, he has enriched the rich and enriched the poor.

Greek statistics and Siemens

This supposed socialist supported and relied on the plutocracy, which he had little to tax.

He created the Greek statistics, undermined the country's economy with the expansion and paralysis of the state, with concessions to power offsets.

He organized the extremely expensive Pharaonic Olympic Games which cost a lot more than in China, with a population of 1.3 billion.

There was a big party, since almost all the works were given at the last minute with huge oversights. The intervention of the prosecutor for mismanagement in the Olympic projects was lost in space, the veil of protection of Mr. Simitis having many co-authors.

H Siemens with the fugitive in Germany Christoforco and Intracom Socrates Kokkalis almost monopolized government supplies, as well as large entrepreneurs led by the current group Mr. Bobola. Intermediaries have gained momentum in overpriced weapons programs, and particularly in submarine orders coming from Germany, who was also the prime minister after the prime minister.

O Mr. Simitis appointed ministers and government officials, who were in conflict with power and interdependence, with the highest distinction Mr Ioannis Stournaras who knelt Emporiki Bank, that he directed. His constant response to corruption complaints was the well-known model "Tell the prosecutor".

When his attorney knocked on the door, he denounced it as being politically motivated.

So did the same thing Mr Gennimata from KINAL – not the PASOKwho Mr. Simitis take care to demolish, edited by Andreas Papandreou. In a recent announcement, KINAL is against them Responsibilities Simitisto punish this mismanagement is not a collective affair! For eight years Mr. Yiannos Papantoniou did what he did and the prime minister who trusted him to the highest positions did not know anything.

Beloved of the establishment

The Ministries of Culture and Education have been privileged Lambrakis Complex, the Ministry of Public Works the Bobola complex and OTE supplies and other privileges of modern technology Kokkalis complex. Choose the tastes, not the best, he became a friend of interest groups, cooperatives, middlemen, badailant trade unionists, hawker publishers, silver-haired journalists and all manner of parasites.

It has indirectly favored the corruption and parasitism of the social community, with unpaid enrichment. So we arrived at Doctrine of the Pangalos "together we ate". He established impunity, to the extent that a pedophile teacher sentenced, after the end of his imprisonment, returns to school to teach! O Mr. Simitis handed to Ocalan, allowed Imia to become grayed by the Turks and he said thanks to the Americans. Greece played a leading role in the bombing of Yugoslavia, a traditional friend of the country.

He is a follower of the current and exiled condyles that many, still today, though less than yesterday, behave well. Never in the history of the country, his prime minister is almost "sanctified" by exaggerated SMEs. And yet, the people did not multiply it. Opinion polls among former prime ministers rank it last in the popularity list.

However a mbad sanctuary, as well as Mr. Simitis he will remain in the story as "High priest of the nesting", the chief accountant for entry into the Euroclbad, who ended up with The German "new occupation" through memoranda. These and many others are "Works and days" of Mr. Simitis, with whom "We did not rule together or eat together."

We told him

Within PASOK as in all parties, there were and there were honest voices. Many of us were born and stayed for some time in this political space with which we had previously dreamed of building a better Greece to control and enrich all we could. Those who tell us now "Why did not you say so then", are poorly informed or have poor memory. We also said it at great political and personal expense.

We talked about corruption, mismanagement, intertwined policies, anti-popular, the stock market bubble, reluctance towards Turkey, the Ocalan tradition for Imia. But the fish dies of the head. The different journalists with silver legs do not believe that "we eat together". Success, victory, failure, pottery, defeat have a name at the top of the pyramid. Aunt Marika with a reward of 500 € is not responsible for all this. Not even the entire PASOK of this time and especially the oldest.

Simitis mismanagement

In conclusion, an important clarification is necessary. The mismanagement and unreasonable waste of the Simitis era, or even of all the older ages, though much smaller, are not the cause. This is the symptom of the Greek tragedy today in the Euromonmons vortex. Even when all the undesirable sums under the table are added, those selected "Bots" in the Simitis period, before and after, though absolutely reprehensible, do not justify the colossal debts now weighing on us.

These amounts go in a chaotic way to the current mbadive debt of 340 billion, or 178% of GDP, increasing from 12 to 15 billion euros per year in recent years. In addition, 52 billion PSI 2012 haircuts, made mainly with the help of Greek bonds, currently represent a debt ranging from 390 to 400 billion dollars,

When we joined the euro in 2002, after 170 years of existence in the modern Greek state, our debts amounted to 158 billion euros, of which around 250 billion euros. in the last 16 years. to impose receipts, funds and banks, now exceeds 240 billion, or 120% of GDP. If these domestic debts add up to 340 billion of the external debt, the total raises to 580 billion, or 310% of GDP, without taking into account the additional 52 billion of the discount PSI.

Such mountains of debt are impossible to accumulate because of mismanagement and bribes. This may be due to the country's artificial accounting charges within the euro area. Alas! It is very difficult to get rid of these colossal sums, even if some people throw them for years in tickets of ten euros! In fact, the unacceptable waste and mismanagement of the Simitis era was the carpet on which the new German occupation was prepared and carried out in the memorial.

Instead of a violent military occupation, we were given a velvety but more efficient economic possession, thanks to the control of the currency, the banks and the central media. And it is the biggest crime of Mr. Simitis, Giannou and the other "children".

In another country, as in Iceland and elsewhere, Simitis would have been referred to a special court.

* Theodoros Katsanevas is professor emeritus at the University of Piraeus. He has been governor of IKA and OAED, as well as member of PASOK.

SOURCE: The article by Theodore Katsaneva has been published on slpress.gr