SYRIZA MP Vasiliki Katrivanou resigned just a couple of hours after she voted YES to the omnibus bill but NO to the Privatization Fund and IMF’s contingency measures. There was reportedly pressure by other SYRIZA lawmakers that she resigns, as the party could not afford to expel her due to the thin coalition government majority of 153 seats in Parliament of 300.
She will be replaced by Giorgos Kyritsis, the spokesman of the Migration Coordination Body. Kyritsis told this morning private STAR TV that after the September elections in 2015, there was an agreement among SYRIZA MPs to resign and return their seat to the party should they disagree with government decisions.
I am so disgusted by Tsipras+SYR. Not only because they have gone back on their words and enacted things that they swore they would never do. But more importantly, because in order to do so, they have embraced the very procedures and processes they railed against incessantly when they were in the opposition. In doing so, they are proving conclusively that they are no better than their predecessors and are, like the Secretary General of the KKE called them, “hypocrites and liars.”
But what did you expect ? They would have been forced out of the Euro without the bailouts, so you either accept the terms or leave.
I expect a modicum of honesty from them and certainly not the tsunami of double-speak we have been confronted with – especially not after having railed for years about the double-speak coming from the previous governments.
So it’s time for Germoney to leave for missing to pay back her war-debts and destruct the whole country that lost any rights to exist after WW-2
What you say,shows you do not understand what are the stakes and what is possible to achieve with the best intentions.
we had the option to go “our way” on several occasions. Our creditors told us several times “take it or leave it”.
If we were to leave it we would have been much much more worse off. The only Greek leader who could have done otherwise was the least able mentally to do it-GAP.
Are you sure you wouldn’t be better out of Euro Zone ??
Without your own monetary policy you will continue to suffer internal devaluation of wages ….. this has proved not to be a working solution …
How much more suffering are the greek citizens ready to take before they vote for this exit ???
This has already been dealt with repeatedly, by hundreds of serious economic analysts. Including Varoufakis. Yes, Greece would have been better not joing the eurozone. No, the cost of exit is now so high that one can envisage only total economic collapse. Monetary policy has nothing to do with it: it is the onerous demands made by debtors (led by Germany) that are the problem. Nor is the debt cancelled by exiting the euro: in reality, it could well increase.
yes.
Millions of pensioners and beach-sleepers from the Eurozone are dreaming of this: Euros will make us king and queens in Greece! Someone should make a movie out of this nightmare -Enjoy!
May be it’s easier to kick out Mallorca…