Word: papandreou
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...story was similar in ministry after ministry: no records, not even paper clips. Had members of Andreas Papandreou's outgoing Panhellenic Socialist Movement spirited away documents that might be incriminating? Their administration stands accused of large-scale corruption, including embezzlement and taking kickbacks. Angry politicians suggested that stripping the offices was also an act of revenge. Some PASOK officials admitted as much. Sniffed one: "It was a show of our disapproval of the way this government was formed...
After nine days of trying to form a coalition to end the parliamentary stalemate that followed Greece's elections on June 18, both hospitalized caretaker Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and conservative leader Constantine Mitsotakis dropped their insistence on being appointed head of the new government. At that, Communist Party chief Harilaos Florakis, leader of the Alliance of the Left and Progress, which holds the balance of power between the two rivals, announced that he would support a three-month government with Mitsotakis' New Democracy Party...
...parliamentary power. The Alliance of the Left, which the Communists dominate, won 28 seats and could form a government with either PASOK, which holds 125 seats, or New Democracy. Communist Party leader Harilaos Florakis also demands catharsis but so far has refused to consider entering a coalition under either Papandreou or Mitsotakis...
Before he fell ill, Papandreou, 70, hoped to talk the Alliance of the Left into joining PASOK in "a coalition of the progressive forces." He dismissed the financial scandals, claiming they are simply plots instigated against him by "foreign and domestic forces." But last week another scandal was revealed as U.S. authorities arrested 14 employees of the National Mortgage Bank of Greece on charges of illegally transferring about $700 million to the bank's central office in Athens, apparently to avoid paying taxes...
...Alliance has proposed a short-term "ecumenical government" made up of public figures who are acceptable to all sides. Such a transition team would be assigned to set the cleanup in motion and then take the country into new elections. As Papandreou's health deteriorated last week, many in Athens believed it might be the one way out of the labyrinth...