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This article was published June 27, 2015 at 9:34.
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Alexis Tsipras announced in the night between Friday and Saturday that the Greeks will be called on Sunday, July 5 vote for the referendum on the proposal of the creditors. The Greek prime minister said he was forced to call the referendum because the partners of the Euro Group presented an ultimatum to Greece which is against European values for which “we are obliged to respond on hearing the will of the sovereign people.” “They asked us to accept unbearable burdens that would have worsened the situation of the labor market and increased taxes.”
To Tsipras the objective of some of the partners eruopei is the humiliation of the whole people greek. In fact it is the usual recipe of austerity made to increase in direct and indirect taxes, spending cuts with recessive effects of course as has happened in the last five years. Quite the opposite of what Tsipras promised during the election campaign.
The greek government “will not close the banks Monday and will not be introduced capital controls” after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced on July 5 for a referendum on whether that agreement will be found today Eurogroup in Brussels, however, that Athens already rejected in toto. This was announced by Deputy George Katrougkalos. The colleague Yannis Dragasakis and Chief Negotiator Euclid Tsakalotos see tomorrow ECB President, Mario Draghi. Probably the Greek leadership will want to know whether the ECB is ready to support Monday with additional liquidity of the emergency program Ela Greek banks that in the night were already under assault from ATMs, according to reports the British newspaper Daily Telegraph.
Tsipras follows in the footsteps of former Socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou, who had asked creditors to hold a referendum on staying in the country in the euro but was stopped at the G-7 by the opposition of the president of Cannes France’s Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel. Papandreou was replaced on his return home from Lucas Papademos, a former vice president of the ECB, in the office of prime minister a few days after the November 11, 2011 with the establishment of a national unity government in which he had participated Nea Dimokratia, the Socialist Party (PASOK), and a small right-wing party, Laos.
The move by Tsipras wants to prevent the minority of Syriza, the left platform, which holds between 30 and 40 votes in classroom, to vote against the deal in Parliament shattering his governing majority. Faced with a referendum that is expected to approve the agreement by a large majority, because about the ’80% of the Greek population wants to remain in the euro, the coalition government led by Tsipras would no longer no problem to pass the austerity measures in Parliament.
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