The common front that was created during Monday’s political leaders’ summit has been followed by criticism towards Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras by his opposition and has become a source of frustration with the prime minister for Greece’s political leaders
After Tuesday’s Euro Summit resulted in a decision to have European Union Summit on Sunday, garnered strict comments by Europe’s leaders and agreed on July 9 deadline for the Greek government to submit detailed proposals for a European Stability Mechanism program, Greece’s political party leaders issued stern warnings toward Tsipras.
New Democracy Interim leader Evangelos Meimarakis called for Tsipras to strike a deal and avoid calamity, while questioning why he seemed to be happy during yesterday’s visit at Brussels, during a speech he made in a meeting of New Democracy’s Parliamentary Team.
“I am warning the prime minister that we have reached our limit of trust in him,” he said. “I would say we have surpassed it but he is abroad and I should not.”
The New Democracy veteran also criticized Tsipras for his speech in Brussels and revealed that he contacted the President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, to discuss the responsibilities of all those who would lead Greece out of the Eurozone.
Meimarakis also rejected holding an informal new political party leaders’ meeting without holding records, explaining that Tsipras is going to try to hold others responsible, for either a Grexit or a a harsh deal with the creditors. In Monday’s meeting, to Potami Party Leader, Stavros Theodorakis, had asked that the records of the meeting do not become public until the “emergency situation is over.” All of the other leaders had agreed.
Theodorakis also spoke on Tsipras’s’ obligation to find a solution and keep Greece in the Eurozone. In a statement to Kathimerini, Theodorakis labeled any other outcome as a “betrayal” on Tsipras’ part, that would also be viewed as such by the Greek people.
“The prime minister during the political leadership summit, pledged in front of us and the President of the Hellenic Republic that he will bring that solution without compromising Greece’s position in the Eurozone and the EU. He had pledged the same thing to the Greek people when he told them ‘Vote no and I will strike a deal in 48 hours and reopen the banks’. This tragedy has to stop,” he said.
PASOK leader, Fofi Gennimata, stressed that Tsipras had guaranteed to bring back a deal during the political leaders’ summit and noted that his mandate was to achieve a deal with the international creditors. She blamed the prime minister for returning to Athens with an ultimatum, rather than sticking to that mandate.
“PASOK does not give blank checks to Mr. Tsipras, to the government, and to anybody else, for choices, initiatives, and games at the expense of Greece and the Greek people,” she said.
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