<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Orsan</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orsan1234@gmail.com">orsan1234@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 3:47 AM<br>Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Syriza MPs Revolt Against The Agreement<br>To: "<<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>>" <<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="auto"><br><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><em>This piece was first published in Greek by </em><a href="http://www.thepressproject.gr/" style="text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(245,91,3)" target="_blank">Press Project</a> <em>(26 February, 2015)</em></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">It seems that the SYRIZA government is having a difficult time gaining support for the deal signed between Varoufakis and the Eurogroup.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">At a twelve hour-long meeting of the SYRIZA Parliamentary Group held on Wednesday 25th February, parliamentarians criticised the deal signed between the Greek government and the Eurogroup. The meeting culminated with an indicative vote for or against the deal. Panagiotis Lafazanis, the leader of the Left Platform and current minister for productive reconstruction and energy, requested that the votes be counted, but this was rejected. Nonetheless, with about thirty MPs having left the room when the vote took place, a third of the MPs present rejected the deal either with a ‘no’ or a ‘blank’ vote.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">All deputies of the Left Platform and several others – amongst them Zoe Konstantopoulou, the President of Parliament; Nina Kasimati and others – voted ‘no’ or blank. Government ministers such as Panagiotis Lafazanis, Nikos Chountis, Dimitris Stratoulis, Kostas Isichos, Nadia Valavani and Thodoris Dritsas voted blank. Many of those deputies who voted blank expressed disapproval of Varoufakis’s manoeuvres.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Deputies took their positions based mainly on briefings from Varoufakis and prime minister Alexis Tsipras, since they have not received full documentation of what was agreed at the Eurogroup. In the briefings, the agreement was presented as a success for the government. Tsipras claimed that the deal ensures 'the separation of the loan agreement from the Memorandum, the disengagement from the Memorandum policy of austerity, and the stabilisations of the financial system'. Other senior government figures supported the view that financial liquidity was secured.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">However, most of these claims were not supported by any documents of the agreement signed by Varoufakis. The separation of the loan agreement from the Memorandum, which the government claims it has achieved, is not recognised by any other party. All other partners merely speak of a change in the wording of the agreement, requested by Varoufakis. </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Read the full text here: </span><a href="http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/syriza_mps_revolt_against_the_agreement" target="_blank">http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/syriza_mps_revolt_against_the_agreement</a></p><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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