Editing Costas Simitis (section)

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Other points of criticism included the [[1999 Greek stock market crash]] in the [[Athens Exchange]], such as his handling on the [[Abdullah Öcalan]]'s capture and the [[Imia/Kardak|Imia incident]] regarding the foreign relations with Turkey.

Simitis rejected New Democracy's bills for accountability and transparency with regards to governmental expenditure and decisions,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/greek/news/031125_vouli.shtml|title="Όχι" στην πρόταση της ΝΔ για τη διαφάνεια &#124; BBC Greek|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> while New Democracy leader [[Kostas Karamanlis]] accused Simitis during a parliamentary plenum of being an "archpriest of [[cronyism]]", referencing the index of the NGO [[Transparency International]]. However, Greece's position has fallen by five places{{Citation needed|date=March 2008}} in the same index during the New Democracy government (2004-2009). Four years later Karamanlis himself admitted that he exaggerated and that he never doubted Simitis' personal integrity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100070_02/09/2007_239755|title=kathimerini.gr &#124; Αποφασισμένος για μεταρρυθμίσεις (II)|date=28 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928092250/http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100070_02/09/2007_239755|archive-date=28 September 2011}}</ref>