As Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has not prevented the bankruptcy of his country. For many Greeks, he is still not a failed politician, but a hero.
Yanis Varoufakis | © Daniel Ochoa de Olza / AP / dpa
Giorgos Zoumpourlis knows how Greece is thinking. For 25 years, he sold newspapers. In Omonia Square in central Athens, a few hundred meters from the Parliament, it is the morning after the historic No in the referendum in his kiosk. Passers-by look in amazement on the front pages, large proclaim the OXI that voting against the Greeks. And now it became known that the Finance Minister resigns.
“Yanis Varoufakis was more than a politician”, Zoumpourlis says to a customer. “Maybe he was not a politician – and therefore had to take his hat he has spoken the truth directly, straight out with this kind he has arrived not well received by politicians in Europe…”
There is another unexpected turn in the drama surrounding Greece’s future. Varoufakis, the finance minister of Greece could not prevent his country is now in fact bankrupt. And despite the success in the referendum he has now resigned.
Zoumpourlis and its customers believe that he had been forced to take this step. Varoufakis itself has justified his resignation so that the donors were ready for further talks only without him. For the good of his country he had bowed to. Whether the impulse actually came from outside or Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has asked his finance minister to resign, currently probably know only the two. The head of government thanked Varoufakis in a tight statement for his “role as a protagonist” in the negotiations, which took place “under very difficult conditions” in which he had but always followed the government’s objectives and safeguard the interests of the Greek people.
From the Syriza party has been heard no criticism of the success of the referendum has strengthened them in their strategy. The referendum showed that a majority in Greece shares its interpretation of events. George Katrougkalos, Administrative Minister of the Syriza party, responded one of the few directly on the resignation: “Varoufakis has never been a millstone around the neck of this government, but valuable for Greece This retreat demonstrates his selflessness..”
Since the government takeover Varoufakis stood internationally as a negotiator for Greece the focus of interest. He repeatedly criticized the rescue strategy of the last five years, he continued the policy of the Troika even to torture. Such violent comparisons and a media-effective appearance -. Also so worried Varoufakis for attention
The first interview with a German media he was late January TIME and TIME ONLINE on the plane, somewhere in 10,000 meters between Athens and Paris. Actually, it should have taken place in the Greek Ministry of Finance, but already in the first few days after taking office was clear: The Job Greek finance minister can not be planned, dates are often not durable. Is it possible in an aircraft between dozens tourists in economy class a conversation about the crisis in Greece or even Europe lead? The Finance Minister of a bankrupt state not fly business, Varoufakis said.
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