people’s exaltation. I spent concentrated moments that may not have been other prime Minister in modern Greek history”, initially said the prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, speaking to SKAI and continued:
“I’m looking for solutions to the problems, but I’ve changed in my values and my goals. Sure I am aware of international correlations and the ability of the country”.
“Today is left and progressive is that it can give you prospect of a recovery in the economy and create jobs,” he added.
“Europe is like a sleepwalker who walks to the cliff”
“Is it not true that we weren’t prepared. Maybe we thought differently, and with romance that the dominant forces in Europe will be counting the political cost of the application of a cynical policy, which ultimately caused damage in Europe itself”, he said even the prime Minister, and continued: “The progressive voices from Europe was not so strong. Europe is like a sleepwalker who walks to the cliff and someone has to awaken it. Today looks like it was activated somehow, but from the extreme right”.
“The real problem is the debt’
“We had the difficult point (of the assessment) with the smallest possible losses and wounds that undoubtedly exist and must be of consideration. Today, however, there is a real prospect and not like the virtual Samaras, as well as (he) had in front of the 5th assessment that didn’t come out,” said Alexis Tsipras for the assessment and added that “the real problem that forced the country to take out loans to repay previous debt”.
What he said about Plan X and Yanis Varoufakis
“Obviously, I had asked the then minister of Finance to tell me what would happen if the country was outside the Eurozone. One of the reasons I suggested to do that it is possible to don’t meet you outside, is what I read in the study,” said mr. Tsipras, among other things, while in question about to seek money from other sources he said:
“Russia and China have told us that they wanted to invest in Greece, but they can’t cover these huge borrowing needs. Besides, it’s not looking for sources of loan from there”.
“There was no discussion of involvement of the army in case of “Plan B”. You are referring to a conversation with the minister of Citizen Protection concerning a period of prolonged crisis,” he added, regarding the potential involvement of the army.
“Never, I negotiated the exit of the country from the euro”
“Never, I negotiated the exit of the country from the euro,” said Alexis Tsipras and added that “the transition to normalcy will be a gradual and for a large part of the Greek people painful. For this we must all work”.
Ripe for the election of the President of the Republic by the people
“Mature reflection” featuring the prime minister Alexis Tsipras, on the election of the President of the Republic directly by the people.
The prime Minister, in terms of the powers of the President points out that these need to be discussed in the context of the revision of the Constitution, while marking the δυαÏχία as non-constructive.
The prime minister stresses that the constitutional review will restore some διεγνωσμÎνες glitches, such as the law on liability of ministers, while not excluding the possibility of a referendum for the constitutional revision, emphasizing that this will be advisory in nature, and in any event concern a “second and third thoughts”, given the existence of an institutional framework and procedures with regard to the revision of the Constitution.
Institutions, that ensure the participation of the people in the review, is the simple analog to δημοψηφισματικό character of the constitutional review” he noted.
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The Tsipras Plan X, Varoufakis and the direct election of the President
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