“Greeks, it’s to rise up” Mr Tsipras said and asked the Greek people to send a message to the “government of subservience”, while he stressed that the EU builds walls and puts obstacles in order to exclude millions of people not only from development’s benefits but also from the essentials one needs to live decently.

“Our Europe is the Europe of the people and solidarity,” Tsipras said adding that “we will change (German Chancellor Angela) Merkel and bankers’ Europe with our vote and our struggle.”

Mr Tsipras accused the country’s mass media by saying that they have carried out a “huge and unprecedented operation of lies and deception.” The oligarchs and the bankers still control the people and the country’s life, he said, while he called on every Greek to fight and force the government to leave.

Responding to the speech, government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou said, “Tsipras is trapped in his world, in his fixation and obsessions,” and stressed that “we will not let his obsessions poison Greece.”