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"Today's historic decision of the European Central Bank to buy government bonds is something for which my government and I personally worked hard," Greek Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras said at the beginning of his televised address to the voters shortly after the governor of the European Central Bank announced its decision to buy government bonds of the 19 euro zone member states.

He stressed that Greece's participation in the programme, which he expects to provide to the countries liquidity amounting to more than 1 trillion euro, is entirely dependent on the successful completion of the assessment of the course of the bailout programme to Greece and the signing of another agreement by the end of February.

The Greek Prime Minister did not miss the opportunity to blame the radical left SYRIZA that, with its policy, it will not allow Greece to participate in "this cosmogonic era for Europe", as it recognises neither the programme nor the rules, nor does it want to complete the monitoring. "In fact, they have not even realised what has happened, as is clear from their present communication," said Samaras.

Then he appealed to the Greeks to support his party in the elections on Sunday, saying, "The time has come when everyone must assume their responsibility. We have made huge sacrifices to get here and it would be disastrous to lose the opportunities presented to us."
 
Earlier today, Antonis Samaras had interrupted his scheduled interview for the private Mega television, the reason for this being his presence at the opening of Pier 3 of the cargo port of Piraeus, which is managed by the Chinese state-owned company COSCO. According to a report released by the press office of the Greek Prime Minister, the new project "is turning the port into one of the most important ports in Europe."

SYRIZA defined the decision of the European Central Bank as "important" and stressed that "it will be exploited by the next Greek government in favour of the country." The communication of the party states that the announcement of the programme for the purchase of government bonds is "a response to the extreme and limiting policies." According to the radical left, with today's decision, Mario Draghi has completely distanced himself from the neo-liberal voices in Europe, among which is that of Antonis Samaras.