If there were impartial international observers, it is probable that they would have many reasons to censure the behavior of the Tsipras government in the referendum for or against the European plan of July 5th.
Let's forget about the limited amount of time between the convening and the holding of the referendum which made it difficult to provide correct information to voters, but there is more to complain about.
In the first place, at least half of the voters do not know the real European proposals on which they vote: the reason is simple because Greece is one of the most backward countries in the use of the Internet and the text of the proposals subject to a referendum is only published on the website of the Government, which most Greeks will not see and will not be able to read. But there is more, as documented by Federico Fubini in the "Corriere della Sera".
Up until three days ago, the text of the European proposals published on the Goveno website was wrong because it had been mistranslated from English and forgot an essential "no", reversing the meaning of a sentence that would have made the final European plan more favorable to Greece but which did not appear correctly on the Goveno website. Only after three days of reporting did the Goveno Tsipras decide to correct the old text on its site and publish the right one, which probably those who had previously downloaded it will never see because they won't notice.
Furthermore, the Greek government did not miss anything in last minute operations, such as the free public transport in the last week or the rehiring of 230 employees in the Athens underground and that of 1.293 janitors in schools.
Even the supporters of the Yes are not joking, if it is true that many heavy entrepreneurs would have recommended, in a somewhat blackmailing way, their employees to vote for Europe in order not to run the risk of not seeing the next paycheck.
Finally, no vote for the 200 Greeks abroad: unlike what usually happens in general elections, they will not be able to vote in embassies, but in a consultation whose outcome depends on a few tens of thousands of votes, this is not indifferent. Nor is the fact that the electoral ballot graphically favors No over Yes. With all due respect to impartiality
