Athens (APA / dpa / AFP) – The Greek parliament has been officially dissolved on Wednesday. In a statement, the 25th of January was confirmed as the date for new elections. The newly elected parliament should therefore come together for the first time on February 5.
The new elections had become necessary because it was the deputies in the third ballot on Monday failed to determine a new president. Polls show a projection of the Left Party “Coalition of the Radical Left” (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras. This aims to renegotiation of the Greek consolidation program and a haircut on.
The bourgeois New Democracy (ND) under the incumbent Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, however, has in recent days, according to pollsters caught up. The projection of SYRIZA has shrunk by about seven percentage points in November to three or four points.
The Troika rapporteur of the European Parliament, Othmar Karas, said on Wednesday that “election forecasts and related concerns and fears “made the ballot January 25,” the major fate and direction elections in 2015 in the EU “. The EU’s future also depends on Greece, the ÖVP Head of Delegation, according to a press release. Karas proved himself to be confident. “The very hard for many people to reform and reorganization of recent years is beginning to bear visible and tangible fruit in Greece” He therefore hope that “the majority of people recognize that there is no alternative to European solidarity there. “
For fear of political and economic turmoil raised meanwhile According to media reports in December many savers and companies in Greece total of 2.5 billion euros from their bank accounts from. Some experts discuss open again about a possible Greek exit from the euro zone.
The current “mini-capital flight” is unusual and only can be explained with the fact that the citizens were very worried, given the early elections, reported the conservative Athens newspaper “Kathimerini” on Wednesday. The tendency to withdraw money had therefore begun in November in the amount of 200 million euros. A run on the banks be it according to estimates by experts clearly not. However, the development show the concerns of citizens, it said in the newspaper report.
On Monday, the director of a bank branch in the Athens suburb of Peristeri Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) had said, you go especially in ATMs very careful before: In order to initiate definitely not a “bank run”, the Institute made sure that all equipment is properly stocked with cash
The former chief economist of the European Central Bank (ECB), Jürgen Stark. expressed in terms of the elections in Greece criticism of the bailout policy of the ECB. “Greece since 2010 was in fact insolvent several times,” he told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. Was again and again with new money in the Member States and the ECB’s insolvency abducted. Now showed “the still unsolved problems in the strongest”. In protest against the rescue of the ECB Stark 2011 was resigned.
The head of the Munich-based Ifo Institute, Hans-Werner Sinn, holding a Greek exit from the euro zone worth considering. As head of government Tsipras would probably want to keep his country in the monetary union, but not at any price, said the sense “Tagesspiegel” (Tuesday edition). Therefore, a “Grexit” scenario is not entirely unlikely. It would occur then, when Athens get more emergency loans or could no longer finance the capital market -. Tsipras would thus return to the drachma
Tsipras had made in the past few days, his constituents on economic “terror scenarios’ attention. These will be available in the next few weeks again and again. Citizens should not be too impressed by these visions of horror, said the politician.
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