LA.OS leader on snap elections; illegal migration issue

Opposition Popular Orthodox Rally (LA.OS) President George Karatzaferis on Tuesday expressed certainty that the country will be led to early elections probably in early April, while forecasting that the prime minister will then name his successor.

Speaking to private television, he also claimed that PM George Papandreou will be a candidate for the post of UN secretary-general.

In an unrelated development, Karatzaferis backed the extension of the repayment period for the country’s entire debt and stressed that the prospect of a Greece-Israel-Cyprus exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is of major strategic importance.

Finally, referring to the spectre of illegal migration, he said everyone has now the gravity of the problem, when he was already calling for measures as early as 2000.

Karatzaferis stressed that the Dublin II Regulation should be revised, terming it “catastrophic” for Greece.