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Potami leader Theodorakis presents the party's 21 main positions

Potami leader Theodorakis presents the party's 21 main positions

Following a marathon of 60 speeches by the party's Dialogue Committee members, the leader of Potami party Stavros Theodorakis presented on Sunday the party's 21 main positions on current issues, intended "to heal the country's wounds". He termed his party "a large movement of the radical centre" and "of changes".


Theodarakis criticized the parties forming the government coalition as incompetent, while also blaming parties of the Left for bewilderment. He claimed, that Potami brings with it "a new patriotism" that steers clear of "blind and dangerous nationalism", envisaging "a different Greece, productive and extrovert, a compeer member of the EU, without ambivalences and oscillations".

Potami leader said that his party is the latest product of society, coming to challenge a system which seemed almighty "but is not invincible".

Theodorakis would like to see a government organized in a more effective and agile way, with less special advisers and a smaller number of ministers, without any deputy ministers. He also mentioned that he would like to address the issue of bureacracy through the establishment of an Independent Legislation Authority, which would codify new laws and formulate their final text.

On the issue of corruption, he supported the establishment of an anti-corruption European Commissioner with supranational competence in conducting investigations.He also underlined the need to substitute "Dublin III" with a Common European Asylum System.