Anti-euro, pro-drachma party told: form a government if you can

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

An explicitly anti-euro, pro-drachma party has assumed the process of attempting to form a government in Greece, four days after prime minister Alexis Tsipras resigned to pave the way for snap elections.

Panagiotis Lafazanis, the Marxist former energy minister who on Friday formed his own movement of rebels after breaking ranks with Tsipras’s far-left Syriza party, was given a mandate to try to forge a new administration by president Prokopis Pavlopoulos.

The new leader wasted no time in using the opportunity to lambast his former comrades. “We denounce these ‘express’ elections and a government that resigned so that we would go into an electoral process of only a few weeks,” Lafazanis told Pavlopoulos, claiming the poll was a deliberate bid to keep Greeks in the dark over the terms attached to the bailout accord Tsipras agreed with creditors earlier this month.

“We will use this mandate to demonstrate that a consistent anti-memorandum government can, and must, exist in this country. We will use [it], first and foremost, to speak with society and social organisations.”

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/24/anti-euro-pro-drachma-party-told-form-a-government-if-you-can

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Good luck...you're going to need it.

[geek tragedy]

1. a drachma vs Euro debate needs to be had there.

at least it would be honest, as opposed to "austerity with Euro" vs "all problems go away with Euro"

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. World Bank, IMF, Goldman Sachs all criminally responsible for financial mess in Greece.

Jail the bankers!

[Demeter]

3. There are always alternatives

This CAN be done...it won't be easy, it won't be popular from the get-go, but when you look at the choices, this one MIGHT lead to a livable life. The Schauble plan won't.

[truebluegreen]

4. Good. nt

[PoliticAverse]

5. Are the majority of the Greek people still pro-euro? n/t