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This comes as the outgoing coalition government has adopted painful spending cuts to secure emergency bailout funding from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union.

However, parliamentary elections are set to be held in Greece on Sunday amid the country’s deepening economic troubles and the ongoing austerity crisis.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Sissy Velisariou, Central Party committee of SYRIZA (a coalition of the parties of the left), to further discuss the issue.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Set the stage for us. Why is this said to be the most important elections to take place for Greece since it returned back to democracy back in, I believe, 1974?

Velisariou: Good evening from Athens. You question is very interesting and very important. It’s the most important elections since 1974 because now Greece is entering a completely new phase of its history. It’s a new Greece that we are preparing and we are constructing slowly and surely.

The old Greece of the two parties — New democracy and PASOK, the conservative and social democratic parties — have brought us to the verge of destruction. They have destroyed the life of our people here: free and public education, health, social security, pensions. They have impoverished us and destroyed lives.

It’s the first time in our history that people commit suicide in this beautiful country with a wonderful weather. It’s now or never.

It’s the most important elections because it’s the decisive moment that will govern and determine our future in the sense of life or death.

In my opinion, it’s far more important than the elections in 1974 after the fall of the dictatorship because now we are heading towards a new kind of dictatorship which is a hidden kind of dictatorship. A dictatorship of the monetary capital and the banks; this is invisible.

We have to fight it. The struggle is far more difficult than it was in the past when power was located in the military — he who helped the banks. The banks have destroyed Greece and that’s why it’s so vital that we have a leftist majority.

Press TV: Maybe you can tell us, based on what I gather from what you said, you’re not behind PASOK, Evangelos Venizelos and this coalition government. Clarify that for us, if you can. What is the solution then for the voters given the fact that the most that Mr. Venizelos has done is that he’s pretty much asked the EU and the IMF to allow to prolong the adoption of these cuts that are supposed to go through the year 2013 to the year 2014. What is going to happen at the polls? What’s going to happen, the independence is going to garner support from the Greeks?

Velisariou: I think that this is a unique case for people who do not belong to what we call the memorandum parties which is constituted by the former two big parties because they’re minority parties now.

There is no chance that they can stand in and get in. The vast majority of the vote will go to those parties that are against the memorandum. It’s a unique chance, especially, for the left to unite and demand a share of the government in itself.

The former majority parties will not be able to form a government and I think this is a good thing because these were the people who brought us to this situation behind our backs, without even letting our people know what they were cooking in terms of the memorandum.

All the negotiations were secret. They never became the opposite of any discussion in parliament. In fact, they abolished in practice all democratic institutions, and the democratic goods that we have struggled with our blood to get to this country, a country that has been tormented by civil wars and dictatorships.

They did it before us without asking our opinion, without even bothering to bargain with the others. It’s a unique chance for either independent parties, especially at the left, to be able to offer an alternative government.

Press TV: How bad are the Greeks in terms of this situation in the country right now, Sissy Velisariou? We have heard up to points that the crisis based on some of the demonstrations that we saw, based on the austerity cuts and the deep spending cuts that it almost verged on a revolution. I’m curious as to what would happen if this coalition government is elected again, what type of reaction Greeks would have on this?

Velisariou: You mean the right-wing coalition government?

Press TV: Right.

Velisariou: Well, it won’t. They won’t have the majority. We trust the people, and we trust on the people that they go down to the streets and they make their way obvious and open to everybody because this is what counts: the will of the people.

In the past 30 or 40 years in the West, we have forgotten this thing. I’m referring to the 60s; this is the last few years in time, in my opinion. Since then, because of consumerism and a forced kind of affluence, people have forgotten what it is like to go down on the streets and fight for their lives.

This is the moment for Greece. This is the moment for Greece. They won’t get in. We’ll make sure that they will not, because the people no longer want them. The future is destroyed with these people. They are to blame.

Press TV: Sissy Velisariou, let me get your reaction on what Evangelos Venizelos has said. I asked another guest this, he said there are certain misconceptions that worry me and that’s about whether we’re not going to leave the euro. Do you have any faith in him when he makes those kinds of statements, or Greece faces default and mass poverty of voters’ back anti-bailout parties?

Velisariou: In my opinion, this is a [posed] dilemma, the idea of whether we stay in the euro or not. Nobody ever said that the people of the left or, as you call them, the independent parties and people want to get out of the eurozone.

This is a [posed] problem; it has nothing to do with the reality. It has been used as a scarecrow to the people to force them to vote for the right-wing and the social democracy which is the same thing, in my opinion.

Even if they wanted to kick us out of the eurozone, they wouldn’t want to do this as Angela Merkel has made it clear. Therefore, I think it is just a terrorist argument to make people submit to force a vote which is encouraged by the IMF, the banks and with the troika, to cut a long story short.

The question never arises. It’s a trap.

GMA/AZ