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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 14-12-01
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[01] The stance of the troika is also a message to the upcoming SYRIZA
government, SYRIZA MEP Papadimoulis says
[01] The stance of the troika is also a message to the upcoming SYRIZA
government, SYRIZA MEP Papadimoulis says
ANA/MPA---The stance and the demands of the troika is a "result of the
fact that it considers the government finished, granted, but it is also
a message to the upcoming government of SYRIZA," SYRIZA MEP and vice
president of the European Parliament Dimitris Papadimoulis said in an
interview with ANA-MPA webTV.
"We will have difficulties ahead of us. What we claim is that with the
strength of the Greek people's support, a government led by SYRIZA can
negotiate and achieve better results than the government that says ‘Yes
to everything," he said.
Asked about the government's negotiations with the troika, Papadimoulis
underlined: "And the second (meeting in) Paris proved what the first
one in early September had shown; that the red lines are set by the
troika and that the result is humiliating for the government. Now the
government went to Paris for the second time, requesting the return of
the troika –which it would drive away. This alone shows the impasse of
a government, which while it says ‘Yes to everything' to the troika,
it pretends to be a lion hoping to convince Greek voters."
Regarding the election of the Greek President of the Republic, he stressed
that an effort to have consensus on this issue could take place before
the polls. "This is what (SYRIZA leader) Alexis Tsipras proposed when
he visited the Greek President. Unfortunately, Mr. Samaras' hastiness
to ‘torpedo' the proposal either for a meeting between Tsipras and
Samaras or a meeting of all the political leaders under the President of
the Republic eliminates this possibility. We, in SYRIZA, do not intend
to knock on closed doors ... We believe that the Greek President must be
elected with the widest possible consensus by a Parliament with a fresh
popular mandate. This is the position of SYRIZA which I fully share and
to the shaping of which I have contributed."
The full interview is available for subscirbers at the ANA-MPA webTV.
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