What’s at stake in the election lies elsewhere: it’s the composition of the mix of reforms which will allow this country to come out of the crisis once and for all, and to reintegrate the European economies’ concert. Depending on the result [of the election], the reform strategy in Greece will be different, that’s normal.
As the first three years of the present decade were devoted to putting the economy back on track after the crisis of 1998, growth rates remained low and poverty and unemployment remained high. It is only in the last three years that we have witnessed growth rates of 5.4 per cent, 6.6 per cent and more than 8 per cent.