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” We have the capacity not “to print drachmas, says Varoufakis to the Australian public radio ABC. In 2000, a year before Greece joined the euro zone, “was one of the measures we have taken, we get rid of all our printing presses.” “The monetary union is irreversible,” he stressed yet.
The tension between Greece and the lenders has been greatly increased. As Athens missed a debt to the IMF. The announcement of the referendum this weekend raises concerns that Greece technically no longer be able to remain in the euro zone and will have to return to the former currency.
The current Greek leaders repeatedly emphasized their absolute desire to remain part of the currency union. The Finance Minister also stressed again that it would be legally impossible to leave the union. Thursday, yet he repeated on Bloomberg TV to want to preserve the euro, “even if we criticize the institutional framework”.
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If the Greeks next Sunday ‘yes’ vote in the referendum could mean the end of the government Tsipras. The Government will be signing the agreement of the institutions, but gets himself Varoufakis in that case as finance minister. He has said in several interviews.
Varoufakis both gave an interview to Australian radio as the economic news agency Bloomberg. He promised that Syriza will work with his possible successors in the government for a smooth handover. “It may be that we resign, but we do so in a spirit of cooperation with those who take up the gauntlet after us.”
Bloomberg sounded anyway later that he resign as the Greeks Sunday yes votes. The population may then decide in a referendum on whether they agree with the reform proposals by international lenders. When asked whether he will still minister on Monday as the yes-vote makes it, Varoufakis replied decisively: “ I will not .” Varoufakis stressed that the demands of the European Commission, the IMF and the ECB, but only prolong the problems of Greece. “I did not sign for,” he said.
“We found that the verdict of the people must be respected. The agreement will be signed exactly in that case as the troika, the institutions, officials of the Eurogroup or IMF ask us. But we will not do it if the Greek people do not give us the command, “even as it sounded in the radio interview. Bloomberg Varoufakis when asked whether he would sign an agreement without debt relief: “I would rather cut off my arm.”
Last week, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras already that he is not married to his job and that the government would possibly take the honorable himself as the ‘Yes’ option retrieves the Sunday. Also in the euro group to ask the finance ministers of the euro countries are wondering what credibility would be a government that must implement reform plans which they do not stand behind.
According to a recent poll, which was published today in Greek media, will be 47 percent of Greeks ‘yes’ vote. Since the banks are closed, more and more Greeks seem to bow to the demands of the plaintiffs’ money.
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