“Greece has a new government”. This was announced this morning in Athens by Panos Kammenos, leader and founder of Amel, the nationalist party of Independent Greeks, after reaching an agreement with Syriza.
The alternative left party led by Alexis Tsipras won early elections on Sunday with 36,36% of the votes, equal to 149 seats, only two less than the absolute majority, and therefore chose to ally with the right-wing formation, which brings 13 seats.
Although poles apart politically, the two parties are united by the goal of fight against the austerity imposed so far on Greece by the Troika. The agreement therefore opens up to the short-term assignment of the task of forming the government to Tsipras by the outgoing president Karolos Papoulias. Anel was born in 2012 from a split of the conservatives of Nea Dimokratia.
“The Greek people made history: no more austerity. The troika is the past. Now dignity to the people”, commented Tsipras immediately after the announcement of the election result.
In the electoral ranking it is clearly detached Nea Demokratia, the conservative party led by outgoing premier Antonis Samaras, which stopped at 28,1%. In third place were the neo-Nazis of Golden sunrise (6,3%), ahead of the new centre-left formation, To Potami, which garnered 5,9% of the vote and which had promised external support for the Tsipras government.
The Communists have done worse Kke (at 5,4%) and the supply (reduced to 4,7%), while ex premier Papandreou's new party has not passed the threshold and remains outside the Parliament.
“Hope has won – added Tsipras -. We will negotiate the right financial solution with Europe, but we will not respect the agreements of the past”. This is precisely the point that arouses the fears of Brussels, Germany and all the European institutions. Already today on the Greek case there will be a super-summit between the president of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, the president of the Council, Donald Tusk, and the number of the ECB, Mario Draghi.
Tsipras will probably ask to extend the terms of the debt and to reduce interest rates and the possibility or not of finding a solution to the Greek case will be played on this in the coming weeks.
An opening from the ECB has already arrived: "Athens has to pay, they are the European rules of the game - he said in an interview with the Europe 1 radio station Benoit Coeure, member of the executive board of the European Central Bank – but a discussion, for example, on debt rescheduling is not excluded”.
