Government spokeswoman Sofia Voultepsi commented on Tsipras statements and said that the only one to respond to the rallying call against the “small PPC” bill was the Independent Greeks (ANEL) party, some trade unionists under heavy criminal charges and whatever has been left over from the era of former premier Giorgos Papandreou.

Mrs Voultepsi said that it’s not the first time Tsipras declares war on any investment planned or carried out in Greece and charged him of being “provocatively incorporating the remnants of an outdated trade unionist system and inciting those who are threatening to sink Greece in darkness by pulling the switch down.”

She concluded that the SYRIZA leader “remains desperately alone, in the mire of lies.”