A rough road trip to the TIF

The troubled premier and the worried ministers are the bleak picture of the leading party only a few days ahead of the TIF, still echoing the negative results of the three polls published in Sunday newspapers that showed ND way ahead of PASOK in record low percentages.

The PM George Papandreou will hold several meetings with his ministers in order to be well prepared for the TIF press conference.

One of the ministers with the “heaviest” portfolio will definitely be the FinMin Evangelos Venizelos who, apart from the premier, will have to inform the rest of the ministers on issues connected to the budget, the crisis and the rift with the Troika representatives, who left Greece unexpectedly after the incident occurred.

What is more, during tomorrow’s cabinet meeting, Transportation minister Yannis Ragoussis will present to his colleagues the ministry's proposals on the taxi deregulation. It will be the first time that he and his ministerial predecessor Dimitris Reppas, with whom he had had many disagreements in the past, will meet. Moreover, the bill on drugs and the one on health, by Miltiadis Papaioannou and Andreas Loverdos respectively, are going to be presented and discussed, too.

Translated by Lida Filippakis