Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras applauded by members who have given their agreement to the proposals it made to creditors. Illustration. (AFP / ANDREAS SOLARO)
Athens continues this Saturday a decisive weekend. Certainly, the Greek Parliament accepted the proposals that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made to creditors of Greece. Certainly, popular protest has summarized Friday night to several thousand anti-austerity protesters, but Tsipras, who believes he got “a clear mandate” had to rely more on pro-European opposition as Syriza. And several members of his training defected. Next event this Saturday, at 15 hours, with the special summit of the Eurogroup.
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The Greek Parliament supports Tsipras. Around 3:30 in Athens, 2:20 in Paris, Greek MPs adopted the reform program Tsipras. Of the 291 deputies present, 251 approved the document. Friday evening, a European source had revealed that the three creditor institutions (EU, ECB, IMF) considered the proposal of Athens “positive” and constituting “a basis for negotiation” for a third aid package the country in the amount of 74 billion euros. With this sacrament, exactly the same time, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called on parliamentarians to vote a “high responsibility”, authorizing it to negotiate the plan.
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But a vote nuanced For 251 which the. approved, 32 MPs rejected the plan Tsipras, including ten members of Syriza. Eight abstained, including three political figures: the Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, the Minister for social insurance funds Dimitris Stratoulis and Parliament Speaker Zoe Konstantopoulou third character of the state. There were also nine missing, mostly members of Syriza, the most famous, Yanis Varoufakis. The former finance minister, who resigned on Monday to allow Alexis Tsipras to find a compromise with the Eurogroup, meant its rejection of the proposals of his old friend the Prime Minister. He had yet made his mea culpa at the meeting, acknowledging that he had made “mistakes” and that the proposals made in Europe were “very far” from “electoral pact” promises Syriza. But this mark of distrust crack the parliamentary majority for future votes and could result in changes in the government, according to commentators.
Tsipras winner but not grown up This is the teaching of the survey (*) carried out by Odoxa for Le Parisien. – Today in France and iTV . Nearly six in ten French (59%) believe that the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will win his battle with the European Union by getting that Greece remains in the euro area to more favorable than expected, but only 32 % of respondents prefer Tsipras Merkel (66% prefer the German chancellor to the Greek policy). “It’s this admiration of the character’s political cynicism that makes a majority of French and even a majority of supporters of right – 54% against 44% – to feel that Tsipras will win his bet” said Gael Sliman in our columns, chair of Odoxa.
(*) Survey conducted by internet on 9 and 10 July 1004 to individuals 18 years and over (quota method).
What if Varoufakis was fired? The Greek Finance Minister, who Monday created the surprise by announcing his resignation to let Handsfree, in the negotiation, his friend Alexis Tsipras, seems much less than expected in phase with the Prime Minister. In an article published Saturday in The Guardian, a British daily pro-European center-left, the Economist rocker mouth denounces the will of Germany to oust Greece “of the single currency to elicit a fear of all the devils in French and make them accept his model of disciplinary euro area. ” “Suddenly, he writes, the unbearable government debt, without which the risk of Grexit will be dimmed, has acquired a new use to Schäuble,” he said.
Varoufakis accuses Similarly, Germany has be, for there are five years chose the worst solution for Greece, by design: according to him, when Greece became insolvent in 2010, instead of restructuring debt and reform of the economy is the “toxic” was chosen: “The granting of new loans to a bankrupt entity while claiming that it remained solvent”. After this “sordid operation,” “growing insolvency doses were administered” in the country.
Eurogroup meeting in 15 hours. The plan approved by the Greek Parliament will be discussed on Saturday afternoon in Brussels by ministers Finance of the Eurogroup. Its chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem estimated Friday that a “major decision” should be taken on this occasion, especially since the program validated at night in Athens cuts for much the proposals of creditors dated 26 June Financial markets seemed to validate these new developments with a stronger euro, rising European stock markets and a net easing of borrowing rates in southern European countries, Greece in mind.
Parliamentary sessions in cascade. If Greece’s creditors accept the contract offered by Tsipras and Europeans, at least seven parliaments of the Eurozone will meet to vote: France and Germany but also in Austria, Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Slovakia. In the Netherlands, members will meet to see if they want to come together to enact the agreement.
What will the street? Discretes that night, the Greeks could wake up on Saturday with a sense of betrayal. The reform program proposed by Tsipras to the EU, now with the approval of Parliament, wrong last Sunday’s referendum, which had yet seen the Greek people overwhelmingly follow his leading anti-austerity path. The banks are still closed, forcing more than ten days since the Greeks to ration their spending even more. Friday night, only 7-8 000 demonstrated (as) police in central Athens to demand that the Greek Prime Minister to respect their vote “non – oxi” in the referendum. But the challenge smoldering, especially in the extreme left, and she often had gaits riots in an entrenched city.
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