SYRIZA presents MEP candidates but slammed by ND over drachma, referendum
SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras presented his partys candidates for the European Parliament elections on May 25 and called on Greeks to turn your rage into political action to defeat the coalition government, with which the leftists were involved in another verbal battle.
Some two weeks after the party announced the majority of its would-be MEPs, SYRIZA officially unveiled all 42 candidates, including 91-year-old veteran Manolis Glezos. Tsipras said he wanted to turn the May 25 vote into a referendum about the New Democracy-PASOK government.
Greeks rise up so we can be done with their lies, said Tsipras. We will do a much better job than those who led us to todays situation. We are ready to handle the turnaround from an overhaul of our countrys production model, the immediate end to austerity, the canceling of the memorandums and the European debt conference that will lead to the majority of what Greece owes being written off.
Earlier in the day, the partys spokesman for economic affairs, Yiannis Dragasakis, said (in English) that a SYRIZA government would do whatever it takes to achieve its targets in talks with the troika. He suggested that any outcome from these talks would be put to a referendum.
Before Dragasakiss comment, Glezos raised again the possibility that SYRIZA would seek an exit from the euro. The role that money has is the important factor, not the form it comes in, he told Vima FM. If its to our advantage, we will remain [in the euro]. If its not, we wont.
Obviously both of them are referring to what is in SYRIZAs manifesto for the European Parliament elections, which is the suspension of debt repayments, bankruptcy and a return to the drachma, New Democracy said in...
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