Greece: Alexis Tsipras suggested new elections – SPIEGEL ONLINE

In the factional dispute the Greek ruling party Syriza Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras increases the pressure on the left wing. Should not he have the necessary majority in parliament, early elections would be needed, he said on Wednesday a local radio station.

had the left wing of the party at the polls in the Athens Parliament on the conditions imposed by the lender on 15 and 22 July. voted both times against reform and austerity measures. The legislative packages were approved only with the votes of the opposition. Tsipras lost the government majority in both cases significantly, because there were more than 30 each deviants.

This can not go on like this, Tsipras said Wednesday in an interview with the party’s radio station “Sto Kokkino”. It was surreal when some members of the left wing did not vote on the one hand in Parliament for government policy and on the other hand stated that they would support the government, Tsipras said.

If this does not stop, he saw no other option than elections. “I would be the last person who wants elections – if I had a secure parliamentary majority in order to finish the four-year term” to govern, as Tsipras. “But if I do not have a parliamentary majority, we will be forced to a ballot.”

In order to solve the dispute Tsipras proposed a congress in September. In addition to deciding on Thursday, the Central Committee of Syriza.

Tsipras gave in the interview also, he expected that the international creditors could grant his country from November debt relief. Since the beginning of this week in Athens to negotiate the financiers with the Greek government about the planned third aid package. At the negotiations take experts from European Commission, European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in part – and now also representative of the rescue fund ESM: Thus, from the recent Troika quasi Quadriga become

In. the teams sit mainly technical officials who normally work behind closed doors through mountains of files and almost never go to the public. Your bosses are hated in Greece. Who are the four negotiators, read here at a glance.

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