Greek PM lashes out at predecessors, says he ‘succeeded where they failed’
Alexis Tsipras "would have been a very happy prime minister" if he'd been elected to govern Greece a decade earlier, instead of finding "empty coffers" in 2015, he told Open TV on Thursday, lashing out at his predecessors in the wake of comments by former conservative premier Costas Karamanlis the previous day.
"He spoke for 16 minutes; more or less a minute-and-a-half for every year of silence" Tsipras said referring to a speech by Karamanlis in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, one of the former premier's rare public addresses since his defeat in general elections in 2009. "I respect his choice but I can't help noting, just like every other citizen, that I had expected some degree of self-criticism about his own performance."
Tsipras said that Karamanlis - who was elected in 2004 and 2007 - may not have been prime minister when Greece had to seek financial...
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