Former Greek PM Tsipras Wants Greek Voters to Dismiss ‘Old Political System’ in Snap Elections

By
Anastassios Adamopoulos
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tsiprasFormer Greek Prime Minister and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras urged voters on Friday to reject “the old political system” in the upcoming September 20 elections, party sources said.

“On September 20 people are called … to overthrow, with their own vote, the plans for a Left interlude. To choose between forging ahead and restoring the old political system, which led us to the Memoranda and bankruptcy,” he told the party’s political secretariat and electoral committee in his address.

He explained the importance of the electoral battle for the country’s future and the issues that remain open and on which all parties will present different programs, such as debt restructuring, finding equivalent measures to replace some of the harsher ones included in the bailout, farmers, protecting the first residence, non-performing loans and labor laws.

Tsipras also noted that SYRIZA must reveal the real stake in this election, which is to “not allow poorer households to become prey to neoliberal forces and not allow Greece to move backwards.”

(source:ANA-MPA)


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  • TediUSA for Greek PM

    Liar! Calls for a snap election because he signed Greece’s life away to the Germans & if he gets re-elected then he can say that he got voted in & Greeks knew what they got themselves into.

  • JonniOZ

    I thought that Syriza is now part of the old political system. Next please!

  • Marcus

    Let’s face it, he is a leftie. It is only natural that like his communist friends he will not stop until he has completely destroyed what little is left of Greece. When will the people wake
    up?

    The rot really began to set when the Military Junta listened to Henry Kissinger (the American Secretary of State of German decent) in 1967 leading to the eventual abolition of the Greek monarchy.

    The adoption of the republican constitution in 1974 was another mistake because it gave the crooked politicians the free run to steal and plunder from the public purse.

    Since 1967 the Greeks have chosen to unfairly percute their royal family so it is only fair that they should suffer.

  • Chris Mack

    Yep pretty much … I can agree with your right tard self on this matter.

  • MariaOrsic

    Speaking of Kissinger, read below his openly stated plan to transform the Greek people into a rootless group, that could be easily manipulated by creatures of his ilk.

    “The Greek people are anarchic and difficult to tame. For this reason we must strike deep into their cultural roots: Perhaps then we can force them to conform. I mean, of course, to strike at their language, their religion, their cultural and historical reserves, so that we can neutralize their ability to develop, to distinguish themselves, or to prevail; thereby removing them as an obstacle to our strategically vital plans in the Balkans, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East.” – US Secretary of State, the Jewish American Henry Kissinger addressing a group of Washington, D.C. businessmen in Sept.1974, as reported in the popular Greek magazine, Oikonomikos Tachydromos on 14 Aug. 1997)

  • MariaOrsic

    Correct! SYRIZA, this coalition of the radical left, led by a bunch of Marxist multimillionaire sellouts is nothing other than PASOK 2.0 and will share the fate of PASOK. i.e. descent into electoral insignificance.

  • Paul

    Tsipras you are a carbon copy of the old political system.
    A bit of advice for Tsipras is get out of politics for a few years and maybe get a real job and experience life then if you’re still motivated in changing Greek politics then go for it.
    At the moment you continue to insult our intelligence with your juvenile comments.

  • Phil

    To sweep out the old political system we would have to get rid of cold war communists like Tsipiras.