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Greece to early elections. Tsipras tonight resigns – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This entry was posted on August 20, 2015 at 16:03.
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Inset the green light by the Bundestag, the support of the powerful German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, that ‘it is irresponsible to say no to the bailout of Greece “, and above all paid off debts with the ECB that expired today, the greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras has decided to step down, skip the vote of confidence in parliament and call early elections to end the rebellion of the 43 deputies of the left platform, the intransigent wing of his party, Syrizia, and find enough support to the implementation of the rescue program without them.

The television reported Hellenic Ert, stressing that the most probable dates for the voting on 13 and 20 September, although within Syriza there are those who claim that it is better to delayed the opening of the polls in October, when we will be the first “cut” of the reforms by the Troika.

According to the television network, Tsipras could resign this evening. In recent days, many members of Syriza close to the prime minister, as Prime Minister Panos Skourletis, had openly stressed the need for a return to the polls that disinnescasse tensions within the party now formed by two political formations.

Tsipras noted that his majority had melted during the three votes of the priority actions of the third bailout. Many of the 43 deputies “rebels” of SYRIZA have indicated their intention to make a new anti-austerity party and leading Athens out of the euro if necessary, as proposed by the Minister Schaeuble at the 13 July summit in Brussels. Tsipras does not want to give them time to get organized, so he decided to take the risk of going to the polls immediately strong a popularity that continues to be very high.

The “flip” that made after the referendum of July 5, has not eliminated its popularity. Fact remains that the Greek leader was able to return to the center of the European debate the issue of austerity.

Now Tsipras Panagiotis Lafazanis, one of the rebel leader of Syriza, to his left and the pro-European parties to its right, is at the center of the political spectrum and can ask the electorate to vote for him to try to apply a memorandum that everyone knows that without debt relief will not be able to really save Greece.

As the newspaper wrote today’s Die Welt, Brussels and the troika have tried in vain to wipe Tsipras but they did not succeed. The leading greek bent at the last moment by firing Yanis Varoufakis, accepted all 27 pages and 35 shares “priority” of the aid plan of 86 billion euro in exchange for funding. Money that will be used to repay the tranche of the bridge loan and then pay the bonds in the hands of the ECB to 3.2 billion euro due today.

The best ally of Tsipras it will be the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde to October ask you to make sustainable the greek debt once and for all, and Alexis Tsipras wants to be there to deal with the grand finale of a long game on the eurozone sovereign debt crisis began in October 2009 when George Papandrou won the election and discovered that the deficit was skyrocketing, to 15.7%, not 3.4 percent. If it had reduced debt greek in 2010 as requested by the Director of the IMF at the time, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, we would not still talking about bailouts Greek, but Sarkozy and Merkel took time to give time to the Franco-German banks heavily involved in Greek bonds, to save themselves. It was a serious mistake whose consequences continue to pay all in Europe



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