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WORLD, Page 69World NotesGREECESnubs and Empty Files
The conservative New Democracy Party had just entered into a
historic coalition with the Communist-led Alliance of the Left and
was ready to start work. But when Cabinet members arrived at their
offices last week, some found them stripped of files and equipment.
Tzannis Tzannetakis, the new Prime Minister, was greeted by a
single staffer, who told him, "Everything has been looked after,
so there is no need for files."
The story was similar in ministry after ministry: no records,
not even paper clips. Had members of Andreas Papandreou's outgoing
Panhellenic Socialist Movement spirited away documents that might
be incriminating? Their administration stands accused of
large-scale corruption, including embezzlement and taking
kickbacks. Angry politicians suggested that stripping the offices
was also an act of revenge. Some PASOK officials admitted as much.
Sniffed one: "It was a show of our disapproval of the way this
government was formed."