Greek referendum: the “no” to win more than 60%? – Challenges.fr

Nearly 10 million Greek voters are asked to vote during the consultation will close at 1600 GMT and the first results are expected in early evening.

IN BRIEF

• Alexis Tsipras voted this morning and urged his people to “take its destiny hand “
• For Martin Schultz, President of the European Parliament, Greece will have to take” another currency “if the” no “wins
• The European Central Bank will take “additional measures” if necessary.
• Yanis Varoufakis, the Finance Minister estimated that “24 hours, we might have an agreement.”

20.00: What Not to face the Greeks? A meeting of eurozone Treasury directors be held on Monday, the day of the referendum and the likely massive refusal of the measures advocated by the country’s creditors. This Euroworking the group meeting is the preparatory body for meetings of the 19 finance ministers of the euro area.

6:20 p.m.: Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will on Monday night at the Elysee “a meeting followed by a working dinner to assess the consequences of the referendum in Greece, “said Sunday the French presidency. “This meeting is part of the ongoing cooperation between France and Germany to contribute to a lasting solution in Greece,” said the Elysee in a statement.

18H The poll is now closed in Greece, where exit polls are already reporting an advance of “no” (the proposals of creditors), supported by the government of Alexis Tsipras . These give the “no” (“oxi”) winner, with an oscillating result between 49.5% and 53.5%. Yes (“nai”) win meanwhile between 46.5 and 50.5% of the vote

4:40 p.m.. Marine Le Pen, president of the National Front, said, meanwhile, that the EU had “become a real cult” alternating “brainwashing”, “threats” and “blackmail”. “The European Union made an unprecedented pressure on the Greeks,” lamented Ms Le Pen on Sud Radio, wondering if the EU will not “impose” Greece a “government of technocrats”.

3:50 p.m.: The Italian government leader Matteo Renzi predicted Sunday that, whatever the outcome of the Greek vote, on Monday “we will get back to talk “. “The first to know precisely Angela Merkel”, he added. But potential new discussions ahead “very difficult”, has already warned the German bagman Wolfgang Schäuble

2:50 p.m.. The leader of the conservative Spanish government Mariano Rajoy expressed hope Sunday that Greece remains a member of the euro area, while expressing convinced that the future in the region “will not be easy.” “Greece is part of the European Union, and also to the euro area and I hope it will remain so,” said Mr Rajoy during the closing speech of a campus organized by Faes, a think tank . Conservative

2:30 p.m.: According to the German business daily Handelsblatt, the president of the Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, warned the government of Angela Merkel that a Greek exit from the area would result in a hole of several billion euros in the budget of the Federal Republic. The paper said that in such a scenario, the losses suffered by the Bundesbank would exceed the amount of 14.4 billion euros in provisions already passed under the crisis in the euro area since the central bank would suffer losses on securities Greek it holds

14H00:. Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Sunday called France to “prevent the expulsion of Greece from the area euro “, regardless of the referendum result on Sunday night. “Whether ‘yes’ or whether ‘no’ in Greece, France must prevent the expulsion of Greece from the European Union and the euro zone, that is to say, must reformulate conditions survival inside these two entities which allow Greece to live, “said Jean-Luc Mélenchon at the closing speech of the Left Party congress in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne).

1:10 p.m.: The European Parliament President Martin Schulz said that Europeans would not give the Greeks “. We will not let down the people in Greece “whatever the outcome of Sunday’s vote, assured Martin Schulz in the columns of the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. “Maybe we will have to provide emergency loans to Athens that public services continue to function and that people in need receive the money to survive,” he added. “There would be mobilized funds to Brussels for that,” he said

24:40. Greece wants to spend an agreement with Switzerland to tax amnesty for the Greeks with money to accounts in the country, which could allow him to recover sums which it especially needed at this time, according to a Swiss weekly. The text proposed by Athens would grant an amnesty to those who illegally deposited their money in Switzerland, in exchange for a lump sum payment of 21% on all amounts not reported, according to the NZZ am Sonntag quoting “informed sources” .

24:00 Minister of Economy, Emmanuel Macron, said Sunday that “regardless of the vote, we should soon resume tomorrow political discussions “and not yield to the temptation to” crush a people. ” “Even if the non-Greek should prevail our responsibility tomorrow it will not make the Treaty of Versailles of the Eurozone because it’s what’s at risk (…), that tomorrow because some consider that they have won a referendum, we can finally crush a people, “he said at an economic conference in Aix-en Provence

11:30.: Coeuré Benoît, member of the ECB Executive Board, said that the institution will use additional measures if necessary while the Greek crisis is up a notch this week. “In the current circumstances which are circumstances of great European and global uncertainty, the ECB was clear on the fact that if we had to do more we will do more.

11:10 Medef hopes that solutions will be found to resolve the crisis in Greece and worries about its potential impact “I hope we will solve. problems because it creates a general instability. As you know, the economy does not really like the instability, “said Pierre Gattaz, on the margins of economic meetings of Aix-en-Provence.

10:30 The European Parliament President Martin Schulz believes that Greece will have to take a different currency if the “no” wins “Is. Greece is still in the euro after the referendum? This is certainly the case, but if she says “no”, it will introduce another currency after the referendum because the euro will not be available as payment, “said Martin Schulz at the Deutschlandfunk radio German, in an interview broadcast Sunday Thursday and

10.00:. Xavier Bertrand, candidate for the primary right in 2016, estimated Sunday that if not the outweighs the Greek referendum, “ Greece fate of the euro” and treated Alexis Tsipras a “liar.” “If not happening, Greece fate of the euro, it is obvious,” warned the former minister in the Grand Rendezvous iTELE / Europe 1 / Le Monde, adding however that the Greece could remain in the European Union

9:30. The Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, said after voting in the referendum Sunday that ” nobody could ignore the message determination of a people to take its destiny in its hands. ” Obviously decided to hunt anxiety indecisive, over 10% of voters, to go on the side of no, then yes and no are neck and neck in the polls, Mr. Tsipras particularly relaxed arrived at the polling station and smiling, dressed in a white shirt and trousers gris.Sur its passage, many people shouted “oxi” (no), as a sign of encouragement

7:00. The Greeks started to go to the polls to vote for or against the bailout “fresh money against reforms” developed by the creditors of Greece in a referendum which could pave the way to an output of countries of the euro area after five years of austerity.