The new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras experiences in their own country much support – even by people who did not vote for him. The Chancellor shall apply to the Greeks as the driving force behind the hard line of the EU.
On Thursday evening spontaneously many thousands of people gather at the Athens Syntagma Square, and Petros Diamantis is. “The government now needs our support, so I’m here,” he says. From the Athens suburb of workers Aspropyrgos he drove into the city just after closing time was in the little metal construction company, where the 53-year-old works as a welder. He took a bus, then another, and finally the local train and the subway. Two hours is the approach taken, he was finally here, where the newly elected MPs have done a few hours before their oath.
Such a mass demonstration did not exist in Athens for decades. Thousands flocked together: Young and old, students, workers, housewives and pensioners. They wanted the new government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras left wrestling with the EU to one end of the austerity program, strengthen the back. The safety gate that stood in front of the parliament building for years, had had to clear away the new government for days before. A few police officers to direct traffic.
Diamantis heard by colleagues of the Assembly. In its operation, all have chosen Tsipras party SYRIZA. The people vote chanting: “We can not blackmail us, we do not give in, we are not afraid.” Again and again to sound even hymns to Giannis Varoufakis, the new Minister of Finance, who at this time is just flying back from Berlin, where he met with the German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble. Varoufakis is the most popular politician Tsipras by the new government. Since before the cameras he told a few days after the election the had hurried to Athens Euro group boss Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Greece lean more to negotiate with Troika, Varoufakis is in the eyes of many Greeks as a brave dragon slayer as having the hated “Troikaner” defeated.
But so far the new government in Athens has granite. Varoufakis and Tsipras were indeed greeted warmly everywhere with their foreign visits this week. But in the matter, the partners were tough: no haircut, no turning away from austerity, no reform discount. More excited to now expects the first appearance of Tsipras at an EU summit on Thursday.
“We want to give him encouragement,” says Despina Kanellopoulou. Also, it has come to Syntagma Square, with her two daughters. The young women studying at the University of Athens, for two years, her brother works as a computer technician in London – a young hundreds of thousands of Greeks who emigrated because of the crisis. “Without the money he has on every month, we would not make ends meet,” says the 52-year-old mother. She and her daughters are no Tsipras voters, they cast their votes for the conservative New Democracy. “But now we stand behind the government,” they say. You are not the only ones. Tsipras riding a wave of sympathy. His Syriza got 36 percent of the vote. Surveys show that 56 percent of Greeks are satisfied with the election.
All the worse, many Greeks are talking to Germany. You are viewing Chancellor Angela Merkel as the driving force behind the hard line of the EU towards Greece. The business paper Naftemporiki even sees a “new Berlin Wall.” – Against Greece
In fact, the partner support. They apparently are hoping that the Greeks will soon run out of money and Tsipras then crawls to the cross. Both sides, Tsipras and the partners of Greece, playing a risky game. It could be that Greece collapsed so quickly in the state bankruptcy from that there is no salvation.
A thought that Diamantis but does not seem to scare. “We are bankrupt anyway,” he says. Three times his employer he has cut the wage in the last four years. Now he still gets 586 euros gross, the minimum wage, living on the approximately 300 000. Greeks. Diamantis last hope: Tsipras’s promise to raise the minimum wage to 751 euros
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