Immediately following Monday’s announcement regarding the composition of the new Cabinet, the main opposition Radical Left Coalition SYRIZA party issued a statement, in which it stresses that “no one believes today’s reshuffle will influence even in the slightest measure, the applied government policy and the commitments undertaken by Mr. Samaras’ government under the memorandum agreement”.

SYRIZA goes on to mention, that “the government not only did not get the elections’ message, but tries to overtake it with a reshuffle that confirms the unswerving application of its commitments against its lenders, being indifferent to the daily suffering of the Greek people”.

The main opposition party concludes its first comment on the government reshuffle by saying “The only message Mr. Samaras received is the one Mr. Schauble sent a few days ago: ‘No thought for relaxing’. What the country needs are not costless reshuffles, but a government which will stop acting as a surrogate of the lenders’ interests”.