It seems that there is a TV presenter Anna Panagiōtarea clairvoyant abilities. In 1990, she said on her show to a young man with remarkable wild haircut: “You are only 17 years old but one day we will meet again Then you will be a political leader…” The boy with the haircut was Alexis Tsipras – and he could be elected in a few weeks, the most powerful man in Greece
This Tuesday, the third ballot for president did not have the necessary majority for the previous EU. Commissioner Stavros Dimas. The consequence. Elections in late January
1990 Tsipras was still at school. In the program of Anna Panagiōtarea brought him any leadership role in the student protest against unpopular education laws.
Today, with only 40 years, Tsipras leads an alliance of Greek left, the SYRIZA party. The revolutionary image he cares more carefully. Meanwhile, although he wears suit, but almost never tie. Above all, he knows his still well with Gestänker against unpopular regulations. Its rate against perceived or real dictated from abroad austerity attracts voters. In masses. See the most recent polls SYRIZA very front – well ahead of the ruling New Democracy
Friends and opponents agree: The charismatic Tsipras is thanks to them that a raft of radical Left the currently most popular party in the country has become. , “Under Tsipras, the Left has changed from the bleating audience for government power,” says Vernardakis Christoforos, a political scientist at the University of Thessaloniki. A left-wing government would be a first for Greece.
Who should pay?
This is exactly what many of us in Greece worries. As expected, warn the enemy: Now is not the time for political experiments. Where it seems to go with the land just back up a little.
A view of the SYRIZA program gives an idea of what it might mean a left-wing government in Greece. One missing Without: radical ideas
SYRIZA officials said SPIEGEL ONLINE that should be addressed first the “humanitarian crisis” in the country.. For the left-wing party this means that a package of free electricity and food stamps for the poor to 300,000 new jobs
Besides, should not all laws are tilted, which decided in 2010 the Parliament.
Critics have one main question: who should pay? SYRIZA itself is based on costs by 13.5 billion euros. The Greek Ministry of Finance estimates the financial needs, however, to 27.2 billion.
Where shall come out? Then SYRIZA wants to have found an answer. Debts are consistently driven, tax evasion and better control of the rich are taxed more heavily. Then there are indeed unused funds from the EU’s euro bailout fund and other programs. New debt, insists SYRIZA, are not necessary.
Analysts say the formulated harmless for wishful thinking. In the collection of tax debts, Greece has so far failed, why should it change anything? Also, new taxes on the rich would have hardly been successfully used. Anyway taxable only 0.5 percent of Greeks an income of more than 100,000 euros per year.
hardliners in the party drive Tsipras
The redemption of all laws since 2010 – There are hundreds – would be a gigantic task which shake the Greek economy and alienating potential investors could. “We hope for the best but expect the worst,” said an industrialist SPIEGEL ONLINE
But all of the above are nothing compared to the most critical projects in Syriza program:. The haircut. Tsipras says he can push Greece’s creditors to waive a large part of their claims. Europe will not let it come to a Greek default, the calculus.
From Tsipras’s environment, it is true, a possible left government would not make decisions that risk a Euro-exit. The new strong man-in-law is, however nebulous. Sometimes he says: “The currency is not a taboo.” Then again, he swears to want to keep the Greeks in the Euro-zone.
In his party, there is no shortage of hardliners, led by Panagiotis Lafazanis. Put clear on the bankruptcy as a means to flirt with the leave of the euro. These voices have some power in SYRIZA. If Tsipras specify a moderate rate, internal trouble in the party it is safe.
He has not elected, but Europe now reacts nervously. A few hours after it was clear that there will be new elections, first warnings came from abroad. The International Monetary Fund has temporarily halted negotiations with Athens. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble let it be known that it is “difficult would” at a turning away from austerity for the Greeks.
Of these Tsipras can obviously impress little. Yet on Monday, he announced: “In a few days, bailouts, which are linked to austerity measures, snow yesterday The future is here.”.
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