NOT SO FAST, PASOK/ND! On Thursday night, while the media's attention was focused on the bond-swap take-up, Pasok and New Democracy (the two main ruling parties) were trying to restructure their own debt in parliament.
During a debate on a bill on livestock breeding, the two parties colluded to insert a rider – a legal provision that has nothing to do with the law in question – into the bill that would allow both parties to restructure their own massive debts by writing off unpaid interest. The rider, which was subsequently withdrawn, was described by Democratic Alliance leader Dora Bakoyannis as "shameful and a direct attempt at a technically legal looting of public money".
Quite incredible actions from those who got the country into the mess it's in. These same people expect the population and the world to believe that they can really change their ways and bring Greece into recovery!