The caretaker Greek government might have temporarily suspended the 23% VAT hike on private education institutions and private schools (frontistiria) voted in by former radical left government SYRIZA -a move clearly made, as was subsequently revealed to boost its leftist, anti-capitalist profile and woo its left voters-, but the it is the Council of State (CoS) that will rule on whether the measure is constitutional. After the outcry caused by the imposition of the tax hike, which would negatively impact thousands of small, medium and larger education institutions resulting in many people losing their jobs in the private sector, SYRIZA blatantly lied and attempted to lay the blame on the EU institutions, claiming it was a measure ‘forced’ upon the government by its European partners. The swift denial by the European Commission that it had never requested such a measure exposed the former Greek government and Alexis Tsipras, who tried to spin the matter and announced it would request the interim government to ‘freeze’ the imposition of the measure. Former PM Alexis Tsipras went even further by making pledges in his pre-election campaigns that if he took power he would scrap the measure -a ‘reform’ his own government on its own accord had voted in not 2 months ago!!!