The economic problems of Greece

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The conservatives are imposed in the elections legislatives
The economic problems of Greece
By: Carlos Damián June 19, 2012
The Union European gives in form mediatic more votes to the right-side
México. – The right-wing Greek pro European the radical left-wing was imposed and it was under conditions of forming a new coalition government with the socialists after the elections legislatives of last Sunday (6/17/12), moving away the spectrum of an exit of the country of the Eurozone. The conservatives of New Democracy (ND), of Antonis Samaras (AS), they obtained 29.96 percent of the votes, that which will assure those 130 of the Parliament's 300 benches. The disproportion between the percentage of votes and the one numbers of benches it is due to the constitution it attributes 50 seats supplementary to the party that is in first position.

In second place, with 26.65 percent and 71 benches, it was the formation of the radical left-wing Syriza of Alexis Tsipra that denounces the adjustments imposed Greece in exchange for the financial rescues granted by the European Union (EU), the European Central Bank (ECB), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The socialists of Pasok were third, with 12.46 percent of the votes and 33 benches. Tsipras admitted its defeat and he said that its party will carry out an active opposition “against the memorandum", or program of austerity imposed by the EU, the ECB, and the IMF in exchange for funds to avoid the crash of the country.

The Greek town decides to continue in the Eurozone
Samaras called immediately to tie to the country to the Eurus and to form a coalition government. AS before a multitude congregated in the palace of Zappeion, directed them some words, haranguing the multitude; Greece, it cannot continue to the drift, and the multitude received it with the scream of “Here he is, this is our first minister". But the socialists put a condition put together a cabinet with the conservatives: that another left party was added to the alliance. The call took it Democratic Left (Dimar) that is in the center of the game of alliances to take out to the country of the paralysis in which sank after the elections of May 6 with 6.11 percent of the votes and 16 benches.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who called to AS, it estimated that Greece will respect its European commitments as regards reformations. Europe and the world, beginning with the leaders of the industrialized powers and emergent (G-20) that meet in Mexico, they continued with particular attention these elections, crucial for Greece but also for the future of the eurozone whose crisis threatens the world economy. Jay Carney, spokesman of the White House, manifested that “as president Barack Obama and other world leaders have said, we believe that it is in the interest of all that Greece remains with the reformation."

Giorgos Papandreou gave up the government
Socialists and conservatives already formed a coalition government after the renouncement of the socialist Giorgos Papandreu in November of 2011. That bureau was responsible for to negotiate a second plan of international rescue. The first rescue plan was of 110 thousand million Eurus, agreed in May of 2010; it was insufficient before the volume of the Greek public debt that adds 165 percent of its gross internal product. Then the Greeks have voted for second time in six weeks, since in the elections of May 6 the parties pro-Europeans didn't reach half of the benches and none was able to make a pact alliances. The second monetary rescue, of 130 millions, was completed with a restructuring of the debt in hands of the private banks and pension funds. All those help totaled 347 thousand million Eurus.

The conservative AS, nationalist and pro-European, he has intended to avoid that Greece abandons the common currency, with great effort in the legislatives. Excluded by a lot of time by their party AS, 61 years old, it was able to be imposed his rival of left-side Alexis Tsipras (AT), of 37 years, opposed to the plan of austerity. But their party, New Democracy lacks majority, with the rising deficit of genuineness. Under these conditions, AS will try to form a coalition, without a doubt with the socialists of the Pasok, to govern a fractured country and to the doors of the bankruptcy.

A government of national unit
The right-side leader, AS, era the favorite of all the international creditors that they doubt of the capacity of Greece to respect their commitments. For that reason it has the counted time to fix the direction and to transmit security. Samaras was presented as the backer of the permanency of Greece in the area Eurus, in spite of being in favor of renegotiating the memorandum, or adjustment plan concluded with the international moneylenders in exchange for a rescue of 347 thousand million Eurus. Greece was played with these elections, according to AS, if it continued with the Eurus or it returned to the drachma; if they had a coalition government or he was left without executive.

Samaras has not stopped to harden its positions about the topics of security and of immigration, integrating in February to directive of extreme right-side, although there is also a centrist. "There is a mass of immigrants, they are a million and half that they don't have work that they don't have anything to make", he said, and affirmed it “to have the solidarity of Europe” to control the frontiers and to expel to the “undesirable ones”. AS, comes from a family of writers and illustrious managers. Their great-grandmother, Penelope Delta, author of success, took off the life in 1941 for not witnessing the entrance of the German tanks in Athens. The graduate in economy has made a master in Harvard, and he is married with two children. (La Jornada, política, p.p. 2 - 6, 18 de Junio, 2012).