New cabinet, old problem

The Greek Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou reshuffled his cabinet on Friday. The new finance minister is Evangelos Venizelos, who is seen as a man who gets his way. But with the reshuffle Papandreou has not addressed the real problems with his socialist party Pasok, writes the left-liberal daily To Ethnos in its Sunday edition: "All the different wings of Pasok have demanded and received a post in the new government from the weakened prime minster, swiftly defusing the internal party feuding. Those close to the prime minister have paid the price. Some of Giorgos Papandreaou's close confidantes have been removed from their posts, others demoted. But Pasok's real problem is not the internal conflicts or the opposition, but the hundreds of thousands of outraged citizens on Syntagma Square and other squares all over the country. They are completely ignoring this cabinet reshuffle. The social crisis has not been defused in the slightest."

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