An unrepentant party

Given the country's fall from grace over the last eight years, there is clearly nothing to be gained by digging up the past or by deferring blame for the country's bankruptcy exclusively to one's rivals. 

The publication of a report sent by Bank of Greece officials to the then governor Giorgos Provopoulos about the country's financial situation in 2009 was used by PASOK to "vindicate" itself and to point the finger of blame at the government of New Democracy and then prime minister Costas Karamanlis as being wholly responsible for the financial collapse. 

Relevant ND officials at the time provided responses to the accusation and therefore there is no need to repeat them. 

Besides, the financial situation was known to the then PASOK president George Papandreou and his close associates when they irresponsibly made so many promises in order to win the elections at...