The new premier Lucas Papademos said on Monday that the next period will be difficult for Greece to be the European country can apply rescue plan and remain in the euro area, asking MPs to support him in this task full of risks, reports AFP.
"To continue the effort, it is necessary to support our European partners and the IMF (...), but also of a new budget adjustment program, which will aim at a more efficient and faster problem and an improvement in public finances competitiveness, "Papademos said in his general policy to Parliament.
"The main task of the government (...) is to apply the decisions of the summit (European 27 October) and to implement economic policy related to this decision," said Prime Minister nomizalizat Thursday, following an agreement between socialists, right and far right to form a coalition government, agreement signed in order to try to avoid entering the country into bankruptcy, citing Tuesday.
On the implementation of the decision from Brussels, Papademos said it is necessary for Parliament to approve "before the end of" a new loan agreement. Instead, details of the bond exchange agreement (PSI - Private Sector Involvement) the banks need to be announced "soon".
In his opinion Papademos, "PSI will lead to efficient implementation on the one hand, reducing public debt interest (...) since 2012, which will lead to deficit reduction." On the other hand, Greece "will not need additional measures for 2013 and 2014," gave him insurance.
Former Vice President of European Central Bank (ECB) gave his first speech in Parliament, which lasted 35 mind, in front of a packed hall. First was its predecessor, Giorgios Papandreou.
"I take responsibility in the most difficult time in modern history of the country. Alone can not succeed," he told MPs.
Papademos stressed that "despite the sacrifices people, evolution is the crisis remained uncertain."
Parliament's vote of confidence is to take place Wednesday at the end of the debate three days.
"Nobody wants to leave the country euro area," he told MPs, asking them to vote favorably.
"Country can be saved, (and) this is up to us," said the new prime minister by the end of his intervention, after giving details about the measures it intends to release, namely a reduction in the number of civil servants by passing technical unemployment public sector employees, a judicial reform, tax reform and simplification of export law.
Papademos estimated that the country's public deficit in 2011 will be reduced "to about 9 percent" of GDP, after he was 10.6 percent in 2010 and 15.7 percent in 2009. This exceeds the objectives that have been established initially by its creditors Greece.
If the country wants to catch up and to meet goals in improving the pace set by its lenders, will be to accelerate reforms.
However, the Prime Minister did not say which is the official goal of reducing the public deficit in 2012 will be contained in the draft budget to be adopted before the end of December by the Parliament.
According to one version of the draft budget prepared by the previous Socialist government in early October, the deficit would be rudus to 6.8 percent of GDP in 2012.
To prepare this speech key Papdemos discussed on Friday, with partners and creditors of the country, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jose Manuel Barroso and Herman Van Rompuy in Brussels, Angela Merkel in Berlin, and Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris.
In spite of sporadic protests, the new prime minister, leading a Government covering political spectrum from far right to socialists, should not encounter any difficulty in obtaining a vote of confidence in Parliament, in which is supported by a majority theoretical total of 254 seats out of 300.
But he will face his first social test Thursday, when left to mark the manifest suppression of the November 17, 1973 student uprising against the junta of the Colonels, an event in recent years focused on austerity termination.
