Syriza head Alexis Tsipras predicted a folding of the coalition government, saying “the three-party consortium that is collapsing will collapse, and then the country’s future will be managed by healthy forces”.
Tsipras clarified his own party’s aims for the country saying “Syriza does not intend for Greece to exit the eurozone…it is not possible for Greece to leave the eurozone because we will be destroyed. It is not structurally possible for any country to leave the eurozone…the question is whether the euro will remain as a currency, not whether Greece will remain in the eurozone”.
Regarding the memorandum he said only, “The memorandum? What memorandum? The memorandum will not exist in a Syriza government. The memorandum will be abolished”. Tsipras added that he is prepared to negotiate with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “I am ready to sit at the negotiation table even with my worst enemy. I will make no statements of repentance.
When I sit opposite of Merkel she will know that I wasn’t on the SIEMENS (slush funds) lists.” He described Golden Dawn as a fascist organisation, adding that it the duty of European leadership to recognise the reasons that Golden Dawn is a “Nazi organisation”. “Hitler rose to power because a programme similar to that being implemented in Greece now was followed in Germany. We must learn from history,” he underlined. Source: Athens News/le, AMNA
