The main body of the new interim coalition government is already established, reported a representative of the political scene for GRReporter. It remains only to be officially announced. The former vice president of the European Central Bank Lucas Papademos will take up the post of Prime Minister. He has agreed to drag the Greek cart from the mud of the economic crisis, but has requested an extension and his term will continue until at least March 2012. The Prime Minister will have two deputies from New Democracy and PASOK, who will take separate ministerial posts too. The first is the Socialist deputy Evangelos Venizelos who will keep his current post of Finance Minister and the second is the New Democracy MEP Stavros Dimas, who will be appointed Foreign Minister.
"We have to solve the issue of the new government today in order to save the country," Evangelos Venizelos enjoined in the afternoon, in conversation with journalists. The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde called for the same, saying that Greece had to clarify the political scene in order for the recovery programme for the Greek economy to continue.
It is getting cold in the camp of New Democracy after the right leader made a very angry statement. He finds it insulting that Brussels requires the signatures of the leaders of the two largest Greek parties to be secured for ratification of the second bailout agreement of October 26.
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