ANNUAL POLICY REPORT 2012 Greece's commitments arisen from the European Summit on 26th October 2011; drafting and ratification of the new loan agreement by the Hellenic Parliament; voting for the State Budget 2012 as part of the Midterm Framework of Fiscal Strategy; the official PSI announcement and the bond swap7. Realization of the prior actions opened finally the way to the elections of 6th May 2012. The election outcome did not give outright majority to any political party; the procedure for forming a coalition government proved fruitless. In turn, the meeting of political leaders under the President of Democracy, in the absence of the party of Golden Dawn (Chryssi Aygi)), ended with the decision to appoint a transitional (ypiresiaki) government, headed by Panayiotis Pikramenos, President of the Council of State (Symvoulio Epikratias) with the mandate to conduct fresh elections on 17th June 2012. The emerging result of June's elections also manifested the need to form a coalition government8. Indeed, the so-called 'Government of National Responsibility' was formed. Antonis Samaras, President of ND, was appointed as Prime Minister. PASOK and DIMAR support the government, without having appointed their active MPs as members of the government. The election percentages of the governmental parties are ND: 29,7%/129 seats, PASOK: 12,3%/33 seats, DIMAR: 6,2% /17 seats. The political leaders of the three parties have reached an agreement on the broad guidelines and the issues of immediate political priority. A special section is included in these priorities on the irregular migration and security issues, esp. on the control of borders, the mandate of FRONTEX, the amendment of Dublin II provisions and the return policy, the centers accommodating irregular migrants, accelerating the examination of asylum applications, adjustment of the institutional framework regarding naturalization, taking into consideration current developments and legislative frameworks in other European countries (European South) facing the same challenge, and the citizen's protection 9. During the announcement of the government's program, the Prime Minister referred to the relevant sections of the programmatic convergence as follows: 'There are two important chapters in the programmatic convergence of our government: The first concerns criminality which is today in upsurge. Citizen's protection and confrontation of irregular migration. I shall not repeat those quoted [in the text] in detail. I shall add though that parliamentary dialogue among all parties will start right away, so as to induce a change of the legal framework for granting citizenship. And along the whole legal framework of the Migration policy. The announcement of the programmatic convergence reads word-for-word that this shall be realized ''in conjunction with current developments and in cross-reference to those implemented in European countries facing 7 http://www.primeminister.gov.gr/2011/11/14/7029Η 8 The political parties that entered Parliament were: ND, SYRIZA-EKM, PASOK, ANEL, XA, DIMAR, KKE, while LAOS, which participated in the short-term government under L. Papademos, did not make it. 9 http://www.fimes.gr/2012/06/keimeno-symfonias-politikoi-arxigoi/ 14