Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 14-02-15
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[01] SYRIZA leader: Greece was a guinea pig
[01] SYRIZA leader: Greece was a guinea pig
ANA-MPA/ SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras in an interview to Sueddeutsche
Zeitung newspaper on Saturday referred to the need of a new deal for
the Greek economy expressing the opinion that Greece played the role
of a guinea pig.
"With the shock doctrine they wanted to see how much the people can
bear" said Tsipras who predicted SYRIZA's broad victory in the imminent
elections (Euroelections and local government elections) noting that
the Left's criticism for the Europe has nothing to do with that of the
'Right populists".
Asked on government's claims of a major primary surplus of 1.5 billion
euros in 2013, Tsipras said that according to his party's calculations
it is only a numerical surplus because the government has to pay over
1.2 billion euros. "If EU accepts the figures, this will be a political
decision, it will be an effort to support prime minister Antonis Samaras"
he said.
At a press question why he wants to govern under so difficult conditions,
the main opposition leader said "We want to govern because the conditions
are so difficult. To change things. It has nothing to do with personal
ambitions or with positions. We want this tragedy to end".
Tsipras also clarified that "We have a totally different philosophy
from Mr. Samaras and from German Chancellor Angela Merkel. We believed
from the start that the austerity programme will add fuel to the fire
and we were right. The austerity measures created the need for more
loans. Greece became a guinea pig. ".
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