An attack on former Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotou was launched by government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis, on the occasion of SYRIZA’s statements to the SYRIZA executive to Financial Times on the 2015 referendum and the agreement with lenders.
In his announcement, Mr Marinakis said: “With overt political cynicism, Euclid Tsakalotos decided to” inform “us, through an international media, about how Alexis Tsipras would have tool a referendum and deceived the Greek people.
The government spokesman cites the former minister’s statement in the Financial Times, in which Mr Tsakalotos said: “It would be very difficult to reach a compromise with a good dose of austerity without a referendum.”
According to Mr Marinakis, this statement is a direct confession that the referendum was a planned tool to justify the signing of austerity agreement that had already been decided, despite the promises of the then government.
As he notes: “He practically confessed to 10 years delay, even by foreign press, the ruthless mockery of citizens by the SYRIZANEL government with the” theater “of the so -called six -month negotiation that led to the 2015 dramatic referendum.”
The government spokesman continues: “Mr Tsipras deceived the Greek people by allowing half his government to get Greece’s exit from the euro and to the other half to promote a false referendum, while workers lost their jobs and their jobs.”
And he concludes: “Their cynicism, along with their destructive adventurism and unparalleled demagogy, will remain in history as an example of a political act. Do we call on both Mr Tsipras and Mr Tsakalotos to be clearly placed in Greek media: “It was the referendum a directed deception of the Greek people in order to lead to a predetermined agreement that eventually cost 100 billion euros to the Greek people”?
In an interview with the Financial Times, Euclid Tsakalotos also said that “it would be very difficult to reach a compromise with a significant austerity without a referendum”, also arguing that the third rescue package in which he agreed with creditors as the Minister of Finance was “better”.