Preşedintele Parlamentului grec a luat decizia de a se suspenda temporar din funcţie, până la finalizarea unei anchete demarate împotriva sa şi a mai multor politicieni, în legătură cu acuzaţii de spălare de bani, se arată într-un comunicat al biroului său, potrivit AFP, conform surselor de presă. Evangelos Meimarakis, fost ministru al Apărării şi fost secretar al partidului conservator Noua Democraţie, a fost citat într-un raport publicat de un cotidian, care îl acuză pe el şi pe alţi oameni politici că au făcut achiziţii imobiliare, cu scopul de a spăla mai multe miliarde de euro, în perioada 2005-2008.
Preşedintele Parlamentului şi alţi doi foşti miniştri ai partidului conservator menţionaţi în raport au negat orice implicare.
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Greek officials, starting with the finance minister Yiannis Stournaras, have long let it be known that behind the IMF’s hardened stance towards the country – blamed for the failure to resolve the issue of funding consensus on the package of spending cuts Athens must implement in return for further aid – lies another agenda: getting the official sector to agree to another write-down of Greece’s debt mountain.
Lagarde’s comments late Monday are further proof of that agenda, officials said today.
“The IMF simply doesn’t believe that in the long run Greece’s debt load is sustainable,” said one. “Lagarde is making that ever more apparent insisting that the [fiscal and structural reform] programme is so off track it will be practically impossible to plug the “financing gap” that has emerged.”
The current EU-IMF rescue programme foresees Athens’ debt mountain being reduced from its current 166% to 120% by 2020. But EU diplomats in Athens concur that three months after private sector investors agreed to accept massive losses in the value of their Greek bond holdings, the IMF managing director seems to be moving firmly in the direction of another “haircut.” “It’s off-limits as a discussion among EU governments but that is clearly what the IMF is pushing for,” one diplomat averred, adding that in Monday’s address to the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington Lagarde had said: “The Greek debt will have to be addressed as part of the equation.”
Greek insiders reiterated this morning that the IMF’s “unrealistic demands” – that the government agrees to further cuts in wages and pensions, measures it would never be able to implement in an increasingly explosive environment – are all part of the strategy of making the case for an official write-down. Ironically, Greek officials and economists are the first to say that a public sector haircut of Greek debt is exactly what the country needs. “Nobody wants to talk about it ahead of a German election,” said one former high-level government minister referring to next year’s autumn poll. “But Greece can’t be rescued without it.”
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