protests against austerity measures
Mr Katsioulis, Wolfgang Schäuble and the Baltic states have held a Grexit for better. Alexis Tsipras says he does not believe in the recent Brussels agreement and had only consented because they had held a pistol to his temple. His party argues similarly and the International Monetary Fund reckons the planned third aid program financed by the European Stability Mechanism ESM can not rise. Can an agreement work if none of the parties believes?
Author: Michael Martens, political correspondent for Southeast European countries, headquartered in Istanbul
That’s a hard question to answer, but in any case is only in second place. Without a bridge financing until the start of the ESM program which was voted in the last night at the principle in Athens, the Greek economy will continue to erode. The slipping out of the euro so threatened beforehand. Only when the question of bridge financing is cleared, there is the agreement between suspicious to unwilling partners to the series, which will keep for three years. On the one hand we have partners who want strict controls, on the other a government with a hypertrophic conception of sovereignty and an unsustainable debt burden, as some views the agreement their imposition. The agreement can only work if it is the starting point of mutual trust income to later enforce a debt restructuring and a relaxation of the control regime.
© Private Christos Katsioulis since May 2012 directs the newly opened office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Athens.
Christos Katsioulis passes since May 2012, the newly opened office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Athens.
This is a very big “if”. Has contributed in Athens Parliament to this debate, to strengthen donor confidence in this government?
At least confidence in Tsipras itself could have been strengthened, because he has finally announced that his government just as hard as they have negotiated in recent months with the donors, now wants to tackle the shortcomings in the domestic. If he thinks that would be “if” satisfied. However, on the other hand has become clear that the fractures within the ruling party Syriza are even deeper than we thought. There were 32 votes against and six abstentions from Syriza, a total of 38 voices that do not support the project. To those who voted ‘no’, includes some heavyweights of the party, the parliamentary president Zoe Konstantopoulou, the former finance minister Yannis Varoufakis and Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis. This could well mean that will do on the left wing of Syriza something.
A split from Syriza to the triangle Konstantopoulou, Varoufakis and Lafazanis?
Not but should Tsipras, also against the background of his fragile majority, aspire to new elections in the autumn, then I would not be sure if these people still want to compete with him or not to go another way.
The former Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou and Antonis Samaras have MPs who did not vote according to their preferences, summarily excluded. Will that happen even with Syriza, or is the culture of this party did not quite different?
It is completely different. While it might be from the Syriza Group claims that these people give up their mandate. But unlike the former ruling parties, New Democracy and Pasok, which were tailored to their chairman, Tsipras dissenters will not rule well. That there is in this party just do not.
As Tsipras took in January, he announced the end of austerity. Now he speaks of the importance of market confidence. The Greeks have to pay for this learning curve of the Prime Minister expensive – closed for an indefinite period and the banks hardest austerity program of the crisis. If Tsipras nevertheless remain popular?
That’s quite possible. The accusation that the learning curve to get to the people are expensive, is made Tsipras of the Greek opposition often. Tsipras has but that flipped in which he admitted that his government had made mistakes – but they have just negotiated hard as nobody in front of her. In this way, Tsipras suggested his learning curve to a struggle to defend Greek interests at the end of it has been received for the benefit of the Greek people a compromise. This fits exactly into his narrative: The little Gallic village against the rest of the world. Tsipras has understood it very wise that before the referendum “us versus them” to turn existing narrative for his own benefit. He has sold the “Yes” as a “we against Schäuble”. He said that only if we vote “yes” and strengthen the government, we can prevent Schäuble’s plan to overthrow this government rises. In Greek parliament nobody of Tsipras has excelled, could defy.
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