Just hours after the European Parliament elections result, SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras asked for early elections.
Alexis Tsipras’s statement after meeting with the President:
“A new political landscape emerged from the EP elections with new correlation of powers.
Coalition government parties ND and PASOk suffered losses of more than 11%. With what moral and political legitimation can the government negotiate the national debt and impose new austerity measures?
There is a disharmony between the Parliament correlation and the people’s will.
This Parliament has no legitimation.
Had there been parliamentary elections, ND and PASOK would have today just 94 seats.
Τherefore I asked the President to proceed to early elections as soon as possible.”
Alexis Tsipras met with the President of Greek Republic, Karolos Papoulias, at 1 o’clock.
Tsipras told the President as well:
“Some were terrorizing voters saying, should SYRIZA win with 2-3 percent difference, earthquakes, famines and floods would follow. Today is a wonderful day.”
Tsipras warned the government not to take decisions on important issues without the consent of SYRIZA:
“There is a big disharmony between the people’s will and the powers in the Parliament. When there is such a big disharmony , no one is entitled to proceed in critical decisions that will bind the country . The government is not legitimate government to elect the next President [elections March 2015]. The Constitution states when there is strong disharmony of the popular support, then the solution is to appeal to appeal to the popular verdict . I submitted our view that with a coordinated and orderly way to parliamentary elections, normality can be restored.”
Tsipras also warned the government to not proceed to the sale-off of the public assets, the Greek beaches and the privatization of Water Companies.
With 98% of the polling stations counted:
- SYRIZA 26.58%
- Nea Dimokratia 22.74%
- Golden Dawn 9.3%
- PASOK/ELIA 8%
Seats in Greek Parliament based on June 2012 parliamentary elections:
ND 29.66% -75 seats +50 bonus) EP elections: 22.74%
PASOK 12.98% – 27 seats EP: 8%
SYRIZA 28,89% – 71 seats EP: 26.58%
GoldenDawn 6.92% – 16 seats EP 9.39%
INDEPENDENT GREEKS 7.51% – 15 seats EP 3,45%
DEMOCRATIC LEFT 6.25% – 14 seats EP 1.25%
KKE 4.50% – 12 seats EP 6,%
17-19 independent MPs
To Potami with 6,6%% has no representatives in Greek Parliament as it was established in March 2014.
17-19 independent MPs
Alexis Tsipras is right in the sense that Democratic Left, for example, has “disappeared” in the EP elections and would not elect even a single MP should parliamentary elections were held yesterday. Threshold in Greece is 3%.
Independent Greeks and PASOK would have less MPs and GD would have more.
On the other hand, there is a 6.6-percentage of voters who cast vote for TO POTAMI and who are not represented in the Greek Parliament.
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