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The pre-election campaign in Greece end today and tomorrow Greeks will have some time to think before the elections on Sunday. Tonight New Democracy leader Kostas Karamanlis will appear at his last rally in the center of Athens and PASOK leader Georgios Papandreou will be in the center of Thessaloniki. Last night Papandreou spoke in front of socialist supporters in the Greek capital. “For one more time PASOK will take the country out of the dead end street and it will lead it forward. This happened in October 1981, October 1993 and this will happen in October 2009,” reminded the socialist leader. He was greeted by many people and the central part of Athens got greener by PASOK flags.

“The rally points at an independent government,” concludes Ta Nea newspaper. The socialists certainly will win with the most votes on the parliament elections on Sunday. The question is whether they will win with such a lead, which will allow them to govern independently. “On Sunday once and for all we will close the door of the past and we will open the one to the future,” stated in front of his supporters Georgios Papandreou. The called for his supporters to vote and said that the elections end only after the ballot-boxes close. “I believe in a Greece, in which each one of us can make our dreams come true without having to be rich and having to serve someone else’s doubtful interests,” concluded the socialist leader.

PM Kostas Karamanlis spoke at a big New Democracy supporters rally in Siros island, the administrative capital of the Cycladic Islands. “The socialists leader speaks of everything except of the thing, which interests people the most – the economy. It is the biggest problem the country is facing. How do we deal with the economic crisis? He does not answer to this question. He avoids it, because he does not have a plan…because he is hiding his proposals,” this is how Karamanlis commented on the pre-election strategy of Papandreou. Regarding the fact that the socialist leader does not want a second TV debate and he refuses to give interviews to journalists, the Prime Minister said: “He is afraid not to blur out and tell us what taxes he is preparing. He is afraid not to disprove his promises. He is afraid because whatever he says, he knows it cannot be done. This will lead us to an economic dead end street,” said Karamanlis.

Earlier in the day Kostas Karamanlis met with citizens from the Athenian neighborhood Ilioupolis. “The party, which governed the country for 20 years (PASOK) has not changed and will not change,” assured he. To the disappointed New Democracy supporters, who are going to vote for the far right party LOAS, the Prime Minister said: “Every vote for LOAS is a vote for PASOK. The moment is critical and there is no time for votes as sign of protest.”