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With its 40 years, this civil engineer has made Europe tremble. It has done with his actions as prime minister of Greece, the youngest had the country since the nineteenth century, but especially with the ideas from his membership in the Communist Youth Greek was forged to establish a government of the radical left and stop the neoliberal order has dominion over much of the planet. No wonder, Time magazine included Tsipras among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2015.
With a stern face and well-behaved teenager, fur trimmed coats and no tie, Tsipras is, for some , a kind of populist goat in European glassware, “Hugo Chavez Nicolas Maduro Europe or even worse” but for others it represents an alternative to the traditional political forces, parties that have been involved in corruption scandals and bad government.
It is certainly a new kind of politician, with clear ideas and bold or outrageous and irresponsible actions, as we see, like to call the referendum for the Greek people to decide whether or not to accept more austerity. One thing is certain, Tsipras has not fooled anyone. From the first moment he defined his political ideology of radical left and that was winning elections in Greece.
About six months before the victory of his party Syriza in the Greek parliamentary elections on Jan. 25, Tsipras he warned in an interview with Euronews that “a leftist government sent a powerful Europe message will be the stone that will shake the calm waters and will be the opportunity for a great change in Europe.”
She said ahead of the European parliamentary elections of May 25, 2014, in which Syriza won with 26.5% of the votes the ruling right-wing party New Democracy, which fell 22.7%.
His victory, in fact, sent a strong message to Europe, particularly German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who hallucinates and sees Tsipras guilty of Greek tragedy with its uncompromising austerity policy. In that same interview, the Greek politician warned that programs Merkel, southern Europe perpetually need new loans. “Austerity leads to a vicious circle of recession and new loans,” he said. In another interview the same time, with European Left, Tsipras stressed the urgency of “politically isolate” the German ruler, “defeat” and “end to austerity and restore democracy.”
In the elections of 25 January, Syriza became the first political force of the Greek Parliament, with 36.3% of votes, which represented 300 149 seats, two fewer to reach most compared the ruling party New Democracy, which won 76 seats with 27.8% of the vote.
The triumph of Tsipras was the victory of his proclamations in the so-called Thessaloniki agenda, based on four pillars, They have been part of his political discourse: 1) confront the humanitarian crisis; 2) boost the economy and promote tax justice; 3) a national plan to create jobs and 4) transforming the political system to deepen democracy. In the first meeting with his cabinet, Tsipras said that the priorities of his government were just fighting the humanitarian crisis in Greece, negotiate the restructuring of Greek debt with the European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) and comply with his campaign promises, such as ending the privatization policies of his predecessors.
Character tragedy . Proving that history has, after being sworn in as prime minister in January, Tsipras visited the Monument to the Resistance in Kaisariani, to pay tribute to the 200 members of the Greek resistance executed by the Nazi army in May 1944.
Somehow, Tsipras has been acting as a new hero of Greek resistance against the Eurocrats dictates, as a sort of Prometheus of the twenty-first century is sacrificed to free the oppressed, like the protagonist of a tragedy Current Greek, in which fate is not inevitable.
In a speech in Berlin in May last year, Tsipras outlined what in your opinion is a better future for Europe, posing a route change the neoliberal course, driven by Merkel. With strong sentences, he advocated “break the wall of money” and choose between “a Europe of peoples” or “a Europe of bankers”. For him, the choice was clear: “With democracy and solidarity that unite Europe or killing austerity Europe … with the European left or Mrs. Merkel.”
. his world of political ideals is not absent the original tradition of democracy in Greece. In the hardest moments of the negotiations with the so-called Troika (the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF), the week before, the Greek premier accused creditors of “blackmail” by proposing “to accept an austerity program humiliating that has no end or prospects of returning to stand up “and defending the referendum, called on citizens” to decide sovereign and proudly, as dictated by the proud history of the Greeks “.
In your life They are either absent icons of the global left. The second of his two sons is called Ernesto, in memory of Che Guevara, one of the idols of his father, a wealthy manufacturer. His eldest son has just the name of his father, Pávlos. Atheist, not married by the Orthodox Church and baptized their two children.
ampoco married by civil, but signed a cohabitation agreement. It is said that his life partner, Peristera Baziana, 40, was the one who took him to the military in the Communist Youth. Since they were students, the couple attended political meetings, such as the protests in 1991 against the government’s education reform right.
Tsipras was born on July 28, 1974, just four days after the end of the dictatorship of the colonels in Greece. Fan of rock and roll and soccer, is a follower of Panathinaikos, one of the three Greek teams. The BBC reported that after being elected Greek premier, his Italian counterpart, Matteo Renzi, gave him a silk tie. In his agonizing crusade against the Eurocrats, Tsipras promised to use it once the debt crisis in his country was resolved. Tie, apparently, will remain in the closet. Perhaps because, like Prometheus, Tsipras gave the Greeks “blind hopes”.
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