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Among the potential winners was ranked the Financial Minister George Papaconstantinou. His nomination was inevitable having in mind that he still managed to implement the measures for financial consolidation despite he was decisively repulsed during the year. Moreover, he even managed to reduce the deficit of Greece by around 6% although he did not manage to bring the planned revenues from taxes in the state treasury. The budget deficit fell from 15.4% of GDP to 9.4% of GDP. This impressed the supervisory Troika but not the international markets, unfortunately. Furthermore, George Papaconstantinou did not resign - a step that some others would prefer to take.
  

Another candidate winner in our poll was the former ombutsman of Greece George Kaminis who was head and shoulders above his rival Nikitas Kaklamanis during the mayoral elections in November. This may not seem so important at first glance but Kaminis supported by PASOK in 2010 broke the 26-year reign of New Democracy in the mayor's chair of the ancient capital. Athens had a socialist ruler again for the first time in 1984 which put Kaminis in our poll.