Countdown to Referendum: Everybody vs. Tsipras (party statements)

Author: newsroom  | Published: July 4, 2015

A wave of political statements at the eleventh hour hope to woo voters away from voting ‘No’ in the July 5 referendum

MAIN OPPOSITION CONSERVATIVE ND

Main opposition conservative New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras commented on his Twitter account:

A movement of the people [is taking place] tonight. It’s the ‘yes’ that stirs up Greeks, the ‘yes’ that unites the country, the ‘yes’ that saves Greece!

CENTRIST POTAMI

Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis spoke in a televised message:

Our proposal for Sunday night: A government of national unity with the participation of SYRIZA. I want to believe that the prime minister will behave responsibly and will not make the next fatal mistake of resort to elections in August.

Regarding a ‘no’ vote:

Europeans would interpret it as one more step by Greece to disengage from Europe. He said many mistakes have been made by all sides in the past five years but anger does not help someone make the right decisions.

There are no magical solutions. The easier a solution seems, the faker it is.

A ‘yes’ is the big break with the old habits which are followed by the new government … The banks must open on Tuesday, to allow the market to operate again. Please, don’t cut the last rope connecting us with Europe,” he said, reminding people that Alexis Tsipras is left without any allies in Europe, as socialists and leaders from southern European nations are asking Greeks to vote ‘yes’.

SOCIALIST PASOK

PASOK party leader Fofi Gennimatasaid that Alt. International Economic Relations Minister Euclid Tsakalotos admitted on television that the government held a referendum to avoiid collapse.

He’s proven to be an untrustworthy prime minister.

No more lies. Saying ‘yes’ to Greece, ‘yes’ to Europe and ‘yes’ to the euro is a vote of hope, democracy, pride and dignity for every Greek and mainly for the new generation.

COMMUNIST PARTY

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) issued a statement:

Mr. Tsipras and the government’s ministers, in line with the IMF, have proclaimed as an ultimate goal for the people the settlement of the debt, which would even justify unpopular measures.

At the same time, he [Tsipras] asks for a new 30-billion-euro loan which will be accompanied by a new memorandum.

They are basically asking the people, the party notes, to accept those measures in the name of a new debt management which, whenever it took place in the past, it brought with it a destruction of worker’s rights.