VIDEO – Greek Prime Minister announced his resignation on Thursday evening in a televised address. He calls voters to the polls on September 20 to try to consolidate his majority.
The announcement was expected and prepared by the local media for several days : early parliamentary elections will be held on 20 September, nine months after the arrival of Alexis Tsipras to power. Greek Prime Minister presented the resignation of his government Prokopis Pavlopoulos from the President of the Republic. A transitional government will be formed, headed by Vassiliki Thanou, the President of the Court of Cassation, which is de facto the first woman Prime Minister in the history of Greece.
The decision to anticipate general elections no surprise in Athens: the countdown to the formalization of the divorce between the Greek Prime Minister and his left wing began since 14 August, when voting for the third fiscal adjustment program to the Vouli The Greek Parliament. Its adoption was done thanks to the votes of pro-European opposition parties, aware that Greece had no other options to avoid leaving the euro area.
Alexis Tsipras had not choice: slingers – 42 against 30 on the last vote – are reassembled enough against him to block the adoption of the implementing legislation of the aid plan. “He must squeeze its left wing to govern. Otherwise it will be bound hand and foot. His government became a minority, “says Andreas Drimiotis, political analyst, while stating that the Prime Minister did well to act fast. “Tsipras believes that organizing elections in September gives him a great chance to win easily, because the lack of time prevent the slingers form a solid advantage,” adds the analyst.
The dissidents the Prime Minister does not make them united, even if the fight against austerity and the refusal of the aid plans of the European Union, International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank bring together. Everyone wants to get in on the votes of 62% of Greeks voted against the rigor during the July 5 referendum and that have not been listened to by Alexis Tsipras.
The behavior of Yanis Varoufakis, particularly concerned the entourage of the Greek Prime Minister. The former finance minister maintains his antirigueur profile multiplies the interviews to the international press and will even be the guest of honor Arnaud Montebourg at the Feast of the Pink Saturday in Frangy-en-Bresse. Relatives of Alexis Tsipras fear Varoufakis not form his own party, surfing’s popularity, “because he was elected with the most votes, the elections in January,” does one strikes at Maximos Palace where Alexis Tsipras consult advisers and ministers.
“This plan ridicules democracy”
It is the same for Zoi Konstantopoulou, President Parliament, which continues to put a spoke in the wheels of Tsipras. It denounces all-will his mistake to have adopted this third aid package and expects to see the metamorphosis of cross country and out. “This plan ridicules democracy,” says MP Kostas Lapavitsas rebellious. “This is unprecedented in history. It is full of uncertainties. We can only describe it as “colonization”, as it provides an interference in the sovereignty of the country by public creditors, “he adds.
The campaign of 20 September, such as the recent elections January 25, will last a month, but the difference is huge: banks enter their third month of capital controls. This means that the Greek bank withdrawals are limited to 420 euros per week and that the economy is paralyzed. Alexis Tsipras The challenge will be to reassure the country, but the task is even more difficult than the adopted fiscal adjustment plan provides a tsunami of reforms, including those pensions or the imposition of farmers, as many reserves voice of the Prime Minister to lose.
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