[Greece] Papandreou: PASOK against poverty, cheap labour

from The Athens News Agancy

New Democracy's government wants Greeks subjugated with their heads bowed low, so that they're easy prey for its party leadership, main opposition PASOK leader George Papandreou said on Monday during an address in southern Greece, while stressing that his own party was against poverty and cheap labour.

"We want Greeks to hold their heads high," he told a rally during the second day of his tour in Argolida prefecture.

Papandreou particularly stressed his own and his party's opposition to cheap labour and "second-class citizens", which he said ND considered an advantage.

"We are against poverty and the reduction of incomes. We are battling for a better future with democratic ethics, transparency and participation, to create a society of values," he said.

The main opposition leader again rapped the government for failing to make good on its pre-election promises, saying that unemployment, high prices, poverty had all risen since the elections, while farmers, pensioners and the provinces had been left to their fate.