In what could be viewed as a victory of the EU leaders against the danger of a referendum being held in Greece, even the Greeks themselves are hostile to the new Greek PM Lucas Papademos, as demonstrated by a poll published on Friday by "Athens news", after the government won the vote of confidence on Wednesday night. The coalition consisting of the New Democracy, Pasok and Laos parties, controls 253 seats in the Parliament, out of a total of 300.
Compared to a previous poll, published ten days earlier, Pasok fell from 15% to 11.8% among the preferences of the Greeks, the New Democracy Party slid from 22.5%, to 21.2%, and Laos fell from 5.7%, to 5.2%, showing the Greeks' suspicion (which the Parliament is meant to represent), that the agreements with the EU concluded by the new Government do not really have the best interests of Greece at heart.
That conclusion is obvious, given the fact that 60% of the pollsters agree that Papademos, former vice-president of the European Central Bank is Greece's best chance to remain in the Eurozone, so his slide in the polls can only be explained by the high number of Greeks who want a return to the Drachma.
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Papademos' first goal is to guarantee the legendary tranche of 8 billion Euros, promised by the partners in the Eurozone and by the IMF, about which his predecessor, Giorgios Papandreou had claimed, in mid-September, that it was absolutely necessary, because the Greek state only had money left for two weeks, and then the country would be officially bankrupt (which is something it has actually been for a while now) and it's now been two months since that time and Greece did not receive the tranche and without being called officially bankrupt (which is nothing surprising when we look at the standard European practices this year, just like no one notices that the October 1
