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Skourletis stresses the need to go to elections

Skourletis stresses the need to go to elections

The name of the candidate President of the Republic is of little importance, main opposition SYRIZA spokesman Panos Skourletis said on Thursday, adding that what matters is to go to elections for reasons of national interest.

Skourletis dismissed talk about a special purpose government. "We are not concerned with a special purpose government, with special purpose governments, with the sole purpose of continuing the memorandum policy ... We are not concerned with these proposals," he said.

"For the first time since 2010 we will have a credible discussion with our partners as a government with a fresh popular mandate," he said and acknowledged that there were difficulties.