Posted on 01/26/2015 2:37:11 PM PST by alexmark1917
Left-wing victor of Greece's election, Syriza's Alexis Tsipras, says: "Today the Greek people wrote history" http://t.co/OKEjqZ2FKe
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) January 25, 2015
Who is Alexis Tsipras – Greece's 'Harry Potter' or the man steering the EU towards an iceberg? http://t.co/vD4I4oVntV pic.twitter.com/ne4pj32aER
— The Independent (@Independent) January 26, 2015
First act as PM, #Tsipras visits Kaisariani rifle range where Nazis executed 200 Greeks on 1 May 1944 v/@dgatopoulospic.twitter.com/a4CeNgsw66
— Damian Mac Con Uladh (@damomac) January 26, 2015
Syriza’s Tsipras sworn in after Greek government formed with rightwingers
New PM takes oath after radical leftists agree to share power with populist rightwing party Independent Greeks.
A new chapter in Greece’s uphill struggle to remain solvent – and in the eurozone – has begun in earnest as anti-austerity politicians assumed the helm of government following the radical left Syriza party’s spectacular electoral victoryon Sunday night.
Ushering in the new era, Alexis Tsipras was not sworn in, as tradition dictates, in the presence of Archbishop Iernonymos but instead took the oath of office in a civil ceremony. At 40, he becomes the country’s youngest premier in modern times.
The leftist, who surprised Greeks by speedily agreeing to share power with the populist rightwing Independent Greeks party, Anel, was on Monday afternoon handed a mandate by president Karolos Papoulias to form a government following his investiture at the presidential palace. Afterwards, the new prime minister pronounced that he will give his all “to protect the interests of the Greek people”.
Earlier, Panos Kammenos, Anel’s rumbustious leader, emerged from hour-long talks with Tsipras saying the two politicians had successfully formed a coalition.
“I want to say, simply, that from this moment, there is a government,” Kammenos told reporters gathered outside Syriza’s headquarters.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/26/syriza-forms-government-rightwing-independent-greeks-party
Greek leftist Tsipras sworn in as PM to fight bailout terms
(Reuters) - Greek left-wing leader Alexis Tsipras was sworn in on Monday as the prime minister of a new hardline, anti-bailout government determined to face down international lenders and end nearly five years of tough economic measures.
The decisive victory by Tsipras' Syriza in Sunday's snap election reignites fears of new financial troubles in the country that set off the regional crisis in 2009. It is also the first time a member of the 19-nation euro zone will be led by parties rejecting German-backed austerity.
Tsipras' success is likely to empower Europe's fringe parties, including other anti-austerity movements across the region's economically-depressed south. The trouncing of the conservatives represents a defeat of Europe's middle-ground political guard, which has dallied on a growth-versus-budget discipline debate for five years while voters suffered.
Sporting his trademark no-tie look, the 40-year old former student Communist Tsipras became the first prime minister in Greek history to be sworn in without the traditional oath on a Bible and blessing of basil and water from the Greek Archbishop.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/01/26/uk-greece-election-idUKKBN0KY00120150126
After Victory at Greek Polls, Alexis Tsipras Is Sworn In and Forms Coalition Government
ATHENS — Alexis Tsipras, the leftist political maverick who swept to power in Greece in a popular rebellion, was sworn in as the country’s new prime minister on Monday and immediately formed a new coalition government to charge into the task of reversing wrenching austerity policies and negotiating with European leaders to reduce Greece’s debt burden.
Dressed in a blue shirt, a dark blazer and no tie, he strode calmly into Maximos Mansion, the seat of the prime minister’s office, and took a civil oath rather than a religious one to assume the leadership of the nation.
In his first act as prime minister, he laid roses at a monument to 200 Greeks executed by Nazis in May 1944 in the Athens neighborhood of Kaisariani. The act was a symbolic gesture that some interpreted as a prod to Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who has been insisting that Greece make austere sacrifices to pay its debts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/world/europe/alexis-tsipiras-greece-coalition.html
He is going to do the unpossible, break a broke country all over again
......Greekensveuela...here we come.
Being near Turkey, it might end up as Greekistan.
“He is going to do the unpossible, break a broke country all over again”
No, actually he’s going to follow the Iceland (and Argentina) model...and CALL THE BLUFF of the “bankers”.
He’s OBVIOUSLY seen that BANKERS have absolutely NO CONTROL over their urge to lend money. He knows, FULL WELL (and correctly), that the new loans will start flowing almost immediately after he renounces the existing loans.
Just watch...
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