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Tsipras Wants Regime Change in Greece

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras
SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras

Sticking to his mantra of blaming the coalition government of Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras, who has the support of PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, the head of the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party Alexis Tsipras has called for “regime change” in Greece during a sweep of the country to hold talks with local groups.
Speaking in Igoumenitsa, northwestern Greece, Tsipras said a SYRIZA government would stamp out corruption. “The regime of corruption, of the quick buck and of unfairness will be consigned to history,” he said, without explaining how, or how he would continue spending at a bankrupt pace and not fire any public workers.
Samaras’ government is proceeding with a so-called mobility scheme in which 40,000 workers will receive 75 percent of their already-reduced salaries and then fired if another position can’t be found for them within eight months, a plan critics said is just a disguise to fire most of them.
Tsipras also called for greater accountability among public officials, citing Greece’s privatization fund (TAIPED) as a particular example. He said the organization’s board had refused SYRIZA access to the minutes of its meeting.
Greece’s economy has fallen into a deep crisis caused mainly by PASOK and New Democracy administrations hiring hundreds of thousands of needless workers for generations in return for votes and now the two parties have been charged by international lenders with getting rid of many of them.
Tsipras is opposed to the deal with the Troika of the European Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB) that is putting up $325 billion in two bailouts but has demanded harsh austerity measures in return. He has vacillated on whether he would end the agreement or modify it.
SYRIZA and New Democracy have been jockeying in polls for the lead but Samaras is a runaway choice to be Prime Minister over the Leftist.

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