Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) Parliamentary Group president Alexis Tsipras, in a statement on Saturday, called for the government's resignation and the holding of elections in February.

 

Tsipras stressed that the troika's demands for the completion of the PSI agreement, that one way or another will not make the debt viable, exceed every limit of logic since, as he says, it is not a question of new measures but a plan for the looting of the country and the cession of its sovereignty to the European banking system and to international usury.

 

He further said that "the three political party leaders and the prime minister of a limited period of office, who chose two months ago to sidestep the popular outcry, have no legalisation to sign in the name of all the Greeks the country's condemnation. The only national responsibility option left for them is, indeed today, to decide the government's resignation and the recourse to the popular decision, in February."

 

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE), in an announcement on Saturday, stresses that "their game is fixed. The Federation of Greek Enterprises and the parties of the government, covering themselves behind the troika, are handling the new savage crime against the working people and GSEE (the General Confederation of Workers of Greece) is covering up for them," and calls on working people not to accept to be condemned "to salaries of 400-500 euros, to unemployment, without social security, without Health."

 

KKE adds that it is up to the working people "to upset their plans and to punish the accomplices severely. Class organisation, popular alliance. Counterattack everywhere. Down with the parties of plutocracy. Out with their troika associates, disengagement from the EU with popular power that will write off the debt" the announcement concludes. (AMNA)