Ex-PM says he may also go on record about 2015 negotiations with creditors

SYRIZA opposition leader and former prime minister Alexis Tsipras said on Monday that he may be compelled to give his own account of the make-or-break negotiations between his recently elected leftist-led government and European creditors in the first half of 2015 that saw Greece teetering on the brink of expulsion from the eurozone.

"I've recently noticed that everyone seems to want to write a book about that period, which must mean that the events and the decisions of that time are truly historic," Tsipras said in an interview with regional broadcaster Ionian TV on Monday night.

"At some point, perhaps, the main protagonist of what was a very important period in the country's modern history, me that is, may feel the need to take a position with names and details on the actual events," he said.

His comments are seen as a response to accounts of the...

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