Tsipras paves way for new elections with resignation – Reuters Germany

– by Renee Maltezou and Michele Kambas

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Athens (Reuters) – After months of negotiations over a third rescue package for Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has resigned on Thursday.

With that he paved on the first day fresh grants the way for new elections, in where the head of the left Syriza party wants to compete even again. According to government officials 20 September is as election date in an interview. Although the largest Greek opposition party New Democracy announced previously to venture its own start-up to form a government. But the majority in Athens Parliament to the contrary. With his resignation Tsipras tried to clear the way from Greece’s debt crisis to mix in the domestic power poker the cards in his favor. When the voters he is more highly valued.

During his seven months in office Tsipras rank ‘to work with international donors the conditions for further aid, finally had under the pressure of an impending national bankruptcy but to accept more austerity measures – other than he had promised the voters in January. In a televised speech, he admitted that he had not achieved the result he had hoped for. Turning to the Greek people he said: “I feel ethically and politically the responsibility, about everything I’ve done – about my success and failure – to let you decide.”

“9″ His resignation intensified once the political uncertainty in the debt drama where on Thursday a the payment of the first tranche of the new rescue package new page has been turned – five years after the first utility in the euro partners and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had gone to the starting line. The new package has a total volume of up to 86 billion euros. In return for the cash-strapped country has undertaken, among other things, to increase the value added tax to cut pensions and privatize parts of state assets. This is true in an unemployment rate of 25 percent in many resistance.

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The vote should be held as soon as possible, said Tsipras, when he submitted his resignation to President Prokopis Pavlopoulos. Before the head of state may organize new elections, must get a chance to form a government according to the constitution but other parties. Continued …