Marinakis welcomes political change following elections

Olympiacos FC leader and Piraeus City Councillor Evangelos Marinakis, who received the most votes in the recent municipal elections, told journalists after casting his vote today that,"A new day is beginning for the Greek people and all together we shall try to make a new Greece in which the sacrifices of the Greek people will be vindicated".

"It is a day that takes us away from lies, hypocrisy, hatred, from a sell-out of our country, of national treachery, and all that which kept us back and has placed us and our children in debt for the coming years," Marinakis said.

"A new day is beginning for the Greek people, a day far from lies, hypocrisy, hatred, complexes,audacity,and a sell-out of country - many things which took us years back and left the bill for us and our children for the coming years," he said.

"I believe that all together - neither the many nor the few - we will have a new beginning and will try to make a new Greece which will reward the sacrifices of the people. We will see the Greece of courage, honour, and all that we dream of for our own and our children's future."

Marinakis slams SYRIZA

On the eve of the election Marinakis lashed out at the outgoing SYRIZA government.

"Today we Greeks have a duty to honour our highest right as citizens. We are taking the fate of Greece in our hands and we are choosing the future of our children. That is why no one should be absent from today's call of democracy. Our country as of tomorrow will make a definitive break with lies, iniquity, dangerous populism, treachery, the sell-out of country,the degradation of institutions, scandals, enormous political audacity, hatred, the predominance of petty partisan interests, and remaining in office at any cost The...