Tsipras reinforced on the Greek political scene
Alexis Tsipras won his political gamble. The Greeks said no to 61% for reforms and budget cuts demanded by Greece’s creditors. A non-for which the Greek Prime Minister had implicitly given his political survival. It comes therefore strengthened against a minority that had appeared within his government and urged him to accept the conditions imposed by the Troika. It could also result in a reshuffle. Five months after the election of the coalition Syriza, Alexis Tsipras has even strengthened its political domination over the country. The leader of the Greek right-wing opposition, former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, has also drawn the consequences of the failure of yes for which he had campaigned by resigning from the leadership of his party, New Democracy . In the end, the only downside to this personal political triumph has been the abstention that approached 40% in the referendum.
Negotiations more difficult than ever
no in the referendum in Greece does not mean “a rupture with Europe but” strengthening our power negotiations “with creditors, said Sunday evening Alexis Tsipras, in a televised address. He reiterated that his government was” ready to resume negotiations with a plan of credible and socially just reform “and that” this time the question of debt (public) will be on the table. “Problem, internal political victory did nothing to disarm his opponents in the euro area. And especially in Germany. In an interview with Tagesspiegel to be published Monday, the German Minister of Economy Sigmar Gabriel estimates that new negotiations now seem “difficult to imagine”. And the SPD vice chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to acknowledge Alexis Tsipras to have “cut the last bridges” between his country and Europe. For its part, the Slovak Finance Minister Peter Kazimir evokes the hypothesis of a Grexit. “The nightmare of euro-architects’, (ie) a country to leave the club, seems a realistic scenario after the negative vote in Greece today,” the Minister on his Twitter account.
Merkel and Hollande fire
In this context, François Hollande is trying to play the conciliators. When is contoured to a landslide victory of the “no” Greek, the head of state had successively on the phone in the evening Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and leaders of European institutions Jean -Claude Juncker (European Commission), Martin Schulz (European Parliament) and Tusk (European Council). But it is the Franco-German couple is now maneuvering to try to limit the damage. Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel have expressed their Sunday night “respect” and “recognized” the legitimacy “of the referendum held on the initiative of Alexis Tsipras. He called together a meeting of a summit of the euro zone in Brussels on Tuesday and will meet on Monday evening at the Elysee Palace for a meeting and a working dinner for Objective displayed.. “to evaluate the consequences of the referendum” That is, in short, do everything to avoid a Grexit would open a real box Pandora economic but also diplomatic and strategic. Greece has made a “step out of the euro zone,” almost rejoiced on Sunday evening, a Russian Deputy Economy Minister Alexei Likhachev.
A crucial decision by the ECB
Greece is broke and its banks are closed for a week. Only the ECB may reopen liquidity valves to allow banks to recover to operate and the country to pay its bills. The Governing Council of the Frankfurt institution is to meet on Monday to decide. According to the spokesman of the Greek Government, Gabriel Sakellaridis, the Bank of Greece on Sunday evening was to send a request to the ECB, since according to him there are “strong arguments to back (the ceiling) ELA” emergency aid to Greek banks. Except that no in the referendum indeed blurs the cards. No prospect of agreement of Athens with its creditors, “the ECB has no basis to continue sending euros in Athens,” Holger Schmieding estimated economist Berenberg.
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