ATHENS The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that he would respect the will of the people in the referendum on Sunday and He said that is not asked to continue as prime minister at all costs. “I will not be prime minister for all time,” Tsipras said in an interview with public television ERT, suggesting it might resign if the people do not support the line his government in the referendum
The Government has requested the “No” in the referendum of Sunday in which citizens must answer yes or no support measures proposed by the creditors in exchange for rescue.
Tsipras said he struggled to achieve a “fair deal” with institutions and he was convinced that the negotiations will continue on Monday, but the query yields a “No” as a result.
“We will survive and we will choose our future,” said Tsipras, who He added that “the day after tomorrow the sun will rise in the east” and people will continue “having oxygen” because “the Greeks survive without program (rescue).”
The head of the Greek government hinted that morning Greece will not pay tomorrow the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the stretch of 1,600 million euros maturing loan.
“We will pay if we hitherto sustainable agreement,” Tsipras said, thereby leaving clear that the disbursement will not occur.
He stressed that the IMF “wants to be paid without paying” with the argument that the Greek debt “is not sustainable” and added that the European partners accept “a la carte positions IMF “but they do not agree on addressing debt sustainability, as it wants the Fund.
Regarding the lifting of capital controls to be introduced today, the Prime Minister noted that” banks will open a hours after the referendum result “and said that pensioners, who now have been unable to withdraw their pensions despite being exempt from the restrictions,” should not worry because their pension will only be severely trimmed if we reverse “.
This Tsipras alluded to the proposal from the institutions, IMF, European Commission (EC) and European Central Bank (ECB), which advocates cutting these benefits.
Regarding the proposal agreement by creditors, Tsipras stressed that the text was received by the Executive Eurogroup and no other that has been published after that an increase in VAT collected from hotels to 23% (currently 6%).
The government had offered a 13% as a compromise, an idea that was eliminated in the corrected text by the IMF.
In an unprecedented move, President of the EC, Jean-Claude Juncker published yesterday the proposal, which contained this amendment.
The government, meanwhile, has reacted by publishing the text he had put on the table, and the counter of the institutions, which still Figure a rate of 23% for VAT on hotels and restaurants.
The executive said he made the decision to publish these texts for the public to know about what you have to decide in the referendum.
On the possibility of reaching an agreement, and that the consultation was not finally concluded, the Prime Minister said that nothing is closed.
“My phone is available to all” he said and explained that he spoke with Juncker and President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, and got the session of the European Chamber groups be convened to discuss the extension of the rescue.
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