Stavros Theodorakis

Shades of Schadenfreude by opposition over SYRIZA govt’s sale of regional airports

At least two opposition leaders took aim squarely at the radical leftist SYRIZA government on Tuesday for its “forced” decision to sell 14 regional airports to a German joint venture, a prospect that SYRIZA had politically eviscerated when it was in the opposition as a “sell-off” and “suspicious scandal”.

FT: This was the ‘Lafazanis plot’ for Grexit, return to drachma

It’s a plot worthy of “Col. Stierlitz”, the fictional Soviet “James Bond” imbedded deep within Nazi Germany’s leadership during WWII, yet according to the Financial Times, ruling SYRIZA party’s far-left wing contemplated a “covert plan” to flush Greece out of the common currency and back to the feeble drachma of old.

Greek political hyperactivity recedes … in wake of ‘Greekment’, Parliament votes

Political “fireworks” in Greece appear to be ebbing in the wake of an agreement with creditors and subsequent votes in Parliament to ratify the deal and pass “prior actions”, while the peaking Grecian summer season means less interest in politics — thankfully — and more for beach, sun, islands and excursions to mainland villages.

Friday political highlights include:

Opposition party leaders during debate on third bailout

Other political leaders’ statements from Parliament in the early morning (!) hours of Thursday on on the second package of prior actions envisioned in a memorandum for a third Greek bailout:

Potami party leader Stavros Theodorakis:

“Government’s handling of economic crisis brought the country to a worse state than previous situation”

Opposition leaders warn against another snap election

Both top opposition leaders, center-right New Democracy’s (ND) president Vangelis Meimarakis and centrist Potami party leader Stavros Theodorakis warned this week against snap elections in the country.
Crisis-plagued Greece last held elections in January, with leftist SYRIZA taking power in a coalition with the rightist-populist Independent Greeks’ (AN.EL) party.

Tsipras in Parliament: Choice between Greekment and disorderly default

Greek Prime Minister Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras from Parliament — after midnight on Thursday — that the choice is an agreement between creditors and disorderly bankruptcy, or, a third choice: the Schauble plan. “If we want that, there’s time to ask for it, they offered it to us.”

Juncker refers to 35 bln euros ready for ‘direct injection’ into Greek economy

Centrist Potami (River) leader Stavros Theodorakis was received in Brussels on Friday by EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker for a nearly two-hour meeting.

In statements afterwards, Theodorakis told reporters that Juncker believes the last Greek proposal is a “sufficient basis for negotiations”.

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