“New Democracy will not participate in the game of polarization and division” pointed out President of New Democracy Costas Karamanlis in an interview to Sky Radio, stressing that “the fewer people participating in it, the better for public life”.

He characterized the state as a “great patient”, which, as he said, does not observe its basic obligations to the citizens, stressing that there must be a drastic decrease of bureaucracy and a resolving of the issue of additional interest.

Regarding the broader public sector the President of ND noted that there must be a significant increase in output underlining that there are honest and capable people in all sectors and no one has anything to fear.

He accused the government of refusing to investigate 14 complaints in Parliament, although there was a DA's order, and added that corruption and small-exchanges appear when the law is not obeyed and when there is no political will, while he said: “The PASOK government let these phenomena develop and grow”.

Finally, he repeated ND's proposal on the formation of an independent authority to check public sector commissions and Public works.