The former President of the Republic, Dimitris Christofias, is turning his "fire" on the government and DISY after the reports about the acceptance of the deposit cut by the previous government.
In a written statement, the former President of the Republic characteristically states: It is Averof Neophytou, Nikolas Papadopoulos and Athanasios Orfanidis who repeatedly and without redness launched deadly attacks against the former president, defending as they called "the best bankers we have in Cyprus".
As is the statement Christofias
Whenever the neo-liberal government of Alarm, submissive to the troika, finds itself in a difficult position, it throws smoke bombs to obscure the truth and to reproduce lies and distortions that do not honor it. I would like the Minister of Finance if he had the courage to defend the haircut of the people's deposits that President Anastasiadis signed and implemented fresh - fresh immediately after his election, in March 2013.
It is the least sad to repeat even today that, listen - listen, the haircut was allegedly accepted by the Christofias government and that they did not know that a systemic bank, see "Laiki" was in danger of bankruptcy. We will let them deny themselves. Nikos Anastasiadis in a letter unacceptable for the style and content on November 16, 2012, to the President of the Republic, accused him and even threatened him that he has responsibilities, even criminal, because "he was late in signing a memorandum and the Popular because by January 2, the European Central Bank would terminate the ELA supply to Laiki ".
Specifically, he stated:
"At least one state institution is facing an immediate risk of collapse, with the possibility of transmitting the effects to the entire banking system and thus causing collapse conditions throughout the economy. Particularly reliable and secure information, which has come to my knowledge, states that the European Central Bank, since the beginning of November, has set January 20, 2013 as the deadline for the actual recapitalization of the above bank. Otherwise, always according to the decision of the ECB, the access to the Emergency Liquidity Facility is canceled and the return of all the liquidity that has been pumped so far will be required ".
(…) "I am sorry to be unpleasant but I want to point out that no one has the conscious right to insist on a path that leads to financial ruin. In such a case the responsibilities will be very heavy. Political, civil and criminal responsibilities ".
It is clear that our government had nothing to do with any cut in deposits because as President of the Republic and as a government we finally reached a memorandum in November 2012, after tough negotiations with the troika, which we announced and which memorandum did not word does not mention haircut deposits. This is because it was never possible for Christofias to accept a deposit haircut.
As revealed by representatives of the Commission and the troika, they did not sign the memorandum with the Christofias government because the former president did not accept the privatizations and that they expected Nikos Anastasiadis to be elected to proceed to a joint memorandum of strangulation of the Republic of Cyprus, which not only included private but with a pistol in the temple or in the drawer - I personally believe that no pistol was used, Anastasiadis himself asked for a haircut of deposits, this is what the people of the troika say - they proceeded to sign the disgusting memorandum, which has as its main feature the haircut of deposits and privatizations against lentil panel.
In a televised debate that I watched yesterday at noon, the parliamentary representative of Alarm and a representative of DIKO claimed that mistakes and omissions of the Christofias government allegedly led to the bankruptcy of the economy and the memoranda. Another smoky that obscures the truth. It has been clarified both by the Parliamentary Institutions Committee with the testimony material submitted, and by assumptions made by various, which led the Attorney General to accuse bank executives and send them to court, in the confession of what the former President of the Republic he was publicly shouting and receiving ruthless and inhuman attacks. That the economic crisis in Cyprus, in addition to the impact of the global crisis of the system, was the result of bank robbery and the greed of the big bank capital and not of the financial deficits created by the Christofias government. That is, not the budget deficit and public debt. This admission was made publicly by most representatives of the European Union, including Olli Rehn. The repetition of the lie does not treat any honor to its actors and exponents.
My answer is simple. Damn slow. It is Averof Neophytou, Nikolas Papadopoulos and Athanasios Orfanidis who repeatedly and without redness launched deadly attacks against the former president, defending as they called "the best bankers we have in Cyprus".
Source: KYPE