Greece said “No” yesterday to the demands of its creditors and expects to resume negotiations with Europe strengthened to be hard and that makes it plausible leaving the euro.
With almost 92% of votes counted, the “No”
it is clearly imposed with 61.33%, according to the Interior Ministry. The prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, said the decision of the Greek “is not a break Europe “, but” strengthens our negotiating power. “
His Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, said it is” a tool that will help build a cooperative hand to our partners “, and said that as of Monday the government will work with your creditors to “find common ground for agreement.”
The opposition has accused Tsipras of endangering the country’s membership in the club of 19 nations use the euro and asked the public to vote “yes” because it amounts to preserve the single currency.
Greece’s partners have been quick to react. The first to do so were the French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who after speaking by phone today have decided to meet in Paris to discuss the setback to European plans.
The two leaders said they “agree” that “must be respected” the setback the Greeks have given massive austerity advocated by Brussels. Tomorrow they want the leaders of the Eurozone meet again .
Less conciliatory number two in the German government, the Social Democrat Sigmar Gabriel, who said that after the “no” of the Greeks is “hard to imagine” further negotiations with Greece showed, as Tsipras has ” broken the last bridges “with Europe.
In Spain, the” no “Greek was well received by the We can party, which also promises to austerity and an alternative in Europe. Its leader, Paul Churches, held in Twitter the victory of democracy in Greece.
The Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, today called for the Executive Committee on Economic Affairs to discuss the situation after the Greek referendum this Sunday .
The Greek former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, leader of the main opposition party, New Democracy (conservatives), announced his resignation after the victory of the “No”.
Celebration in Athens
In the center of Athens, supporters of the “no” celebrated with music and hugs victory against “yes”, advocated by many Greeks on behalf of permanence in Europe and the euro.
“It’s a great message for Europe. The Germans did not expect this great victory of the Greeks, “said Yorgos, happy but outraged not carry in your pocket a handful of coins after 40 years working as a mechanic.
” We had lost the hope to have a family, a job. This is the beginning of hope. Europe is for people, not for capital, “said Mary, wrapped in a Greek flag.
Help the ECB
The partners of Athens had warned the Greeks that “no” may be synonymous with output in the Eurozone. But the Greek government spokesman, Gabriel Sakellaridis, predicted that “efforts will be multiplied from tonight for there to be an agreement” between Athens and its partners.
The government also said the Bank Greece asked the European Central Bank, one of the country’s creditors, to increase the ceiling of emergency funding to the Greek authorities, which will open in principle its doors on Tuesday, as the Athens stock exchange, after being closed all week.
The consultation, the first in Greece in 41 years, was held in an unprecedented context.
A lack of money in the coffers, the government could not afford the 1,550 million euros that had to pay the IMF June 30 and from Monday 29 applies a playpen that allows withdraw a maximum of 60 euros per day per person.
The Greek government, formed by the sovereignist party Syriza and ANEL, and the country’s creditors (EU, IMF, ECB) spent more than five months of arduous negotiations.
After respective credit lines 240,000 million agreed since 2010 to Greece, which expired on 30 June, the current government of radical left wants a change of strategy involving the restructuring of debt.
The latest proposal from creditors was extended five months the aid program for Greece and a package of 12,000 million euros until November, in exchange for new cuts and tax increases, it was what motivated the punch Tsipras at the table and the call for the referendum.
Concern conservative
The negative vote of the Greek people to the intended conditions by international lenders to help financially with a country in deep crisis and caused impact both inside and outside Greece.
In Athens the head of the campaign for the “yes” and loser of the January elections, conservative Antonis Samaras, presented his resignation from the presidency of his party, New Democracy, yielding to their demands own followers, reported live BBC and Deutsche Welle (German TV).
Meanwhile, Finance Minister Varoufakis, said the outcome of the referendum in which 61% of voters rejected the conditions creditors is an ultimatum the Greek people to the European Central Bank, the IMF and the Eurozone.
He added that his countrymen had said “no” to “five years of hypocrisy” and considered that Greece had given a “yes” to a better view of the Eurozone.
“Greece extends a hand of cooperation to the creditors,” he said at a news conference the government political party, Syriza. The minister said that “from tomorrow (today) will collaborate with the European Central Bank maintained a neutral position last week.”
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