Tsipras spoke on the Thessaloniki Worldwide Truthful, the place the present administration historically outlines its financial program for the approaching yr. Nevertheless, the nation is presently dominated by an following Tsipras’ resignation, which was triggered by a wave of defections from Syriza over outrage at his perceived capitulation.
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Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras promised to fight to improve the terms of Greece’s latest bailout as he tried to shore up a rapidly collapsing lead in opinion polls, two weeks before a snap election.
Greece’s former prime minister said Monday he was seeking an absolute majority for his radical left Syriza party in upcoming early elections, but indicated a coalition government would be formed quickly if no party wins enough parliamentary seats to govern alone.
When Syriza won elections in January this year, it confronted the reality of Greece’s empty coffers and dependence on creditors.
Mr Meimarakis said European leaders are wrong if they are betting that Mr Tsipras offers the best hope of keeping the region’s common currency area together.
Opinion polls show that at least 10 per cent of voters remain undecided.
He said Sunday that his economic policy would be based on “strong government intervention…to redistribute incomes”.
The game culminated with a national referendum on the country’s relationship with Europe, which backed Syriza’s stance, only for Mr Tsipras to capitulate to his European masters by agreeing a new deal to release euros 82-86bn.
He stressed that the two parties were trying to blame the Syriza government for the migration crisis, whereas in reality the problem had been created by the policies of previous governments.
Greeks are electing a parliament for the second time in just nine months. “Greeks feel disappointed and exhausted; they feel that they can no longer affect the future of the country“. He also defended Syriza’s record on the bailout. It is promising to improve the deal’s terms through renegotiation. “If New Democracy returns to power, with it will return networks of corruption which led the country into bankruptcy over the last forty years“, Tsipras said.
“It is the first time in Greece that no one has the ownership of the bailout”, Wolfango Piccoli, a managing director at the political risk consultancy Teneo Intelligence, told the Wall Street Journal.
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Tsipras has said he intends to soften the edges of the austerity agreement, including scrapping a new 23 percent value-added tax on private education and rolling back privatization projects from an agreed to 23 to just 9 percent.
