Greek government deserves to be alone

More than 70,000 Greeks gathered on Sunday evening at Syntagma Square in Athens to protest at the government's austerity programme. On the preceding Friday crisis talks between the opposition and government had once again failed. The Sunday edition of the left-liberal daily To Ethnos says the opposition is right to reject new austerity measures: "Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou wants opposition leader Antonis Samaras to admit that his party Nea Dimokratia bears partial responsibility for the country's bankruptcy and give his approval for what will no doubt end in disaster. At the same time Papandreou is realising that he has manoeuvred the country into a hopeless situation with the debt agreement [with the IMF and EU]. How can the opposition leader go along with all this? That would be absurd. After its meeting with the opposition leadership the government has been left on its own, and that's the way it should be. The people elected this government - by a great majority - to govern. This government signed the debt agreement. So it's only logical that the people judge it for the policies it pursues."

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