Greek government: With the surplus we can save from new measures and debt

We will save ourselves with the right decisions, Samaras says - If there are no layoffs and we do not proceed with mobility in the public sector we will not get other tranches, Stournaras states

The Greek government rules out the taking of new measures and says that the achievement of the basic objective of the current program, which is a primary surplus in the current budget, will change the situation. "If we can catch the primary surplus target we will not be required to take additional restrictive measures. We will save ourselves. Nobody else will save us if we do not take the right decisions regarding our country," PM Antonis Samaras said.

The Ministry of Finance with a simple statement issued yesterday called the article at Real News as totally inaccurate, as it spoke of a "hidden agenda" from troika and a "new memorandum with reductions and cuts in the private sector."

As Proto Thema wrote, the government believes that achieving a primary surplus will make easing the debt possible, through measures such as lowering interest rates and the extension of loans to 50 years that would equate to a freezing, and will be able to negotiate than any financing gap in the next two years from a better position.

All these apply provided that there will be no exceptions to the application of the current economic program, as finmin Yannis Stournaras said. "If we do not make layoffs, if we do not proceed with mobility and availability, we will not get the next tranches."

According to Stournaras, mobility does not mean immediate layoffs, as "layoffs are neither for financial benefit nor for the reduction of public sector employees, but to upgrade the public sector."

Stournaras supports the need to run the four-year term of the current government, while giving details on what he said about tired MPs, insisting that he was not talking about the Greek Parliament, but the lenders who are pushing for new measures. "The Greek Parliament stood upright in much more difficult situations."