Greek prime minister calls for early election after EU loss

[TexasTowelie]

ATHENS, GREECE -- Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called for an early national election following the defeat of his party at the European Parliament elections.

Tsipras said from the Syriza party offices that "the result does not rise to our expectations ... I will not ignore it or quit."

Tsipras credited his government for pulling the country out of the austerity imposed by Greece's creditors and said that voting for Sunday's winner, the conservative New Democracy, would be turning back to "the darkness of austerity, the darkness off crisis, the oligarchs, the International Monetary Fund."

The government's term expires in October and before Sunday night's announcement, government officials insisted that elections would be held at the end of the term. But a long and, it is said, contentious meeting of government ministers and party officials, ended with the announcement of the early election.

Read more: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/national-business/article230861769.html

[DetlefK]

1. Still playing the victim and refusing to accept responsibility for their crimes.

From 2000 to 2009 the greek government sent falsified financial reports to the European Central Bank. FOR 9 YEARS!

Can you imagine what would happen if a US-State sent falsified reports to Washington DC FOR 9 YEARS?

9 F**KING YEARS OF COMPLETELY MADE UP NUMBERS!



So, when Greece went broke in 2009 from corruption, embezzlement, tax-evasion and government-waste, what solution did Greece propose?
"Give us your money now, we'll do reforms later. Promise. Have we ever lied to you?"

And the evil, evil EU, spearheaded by the evil, evil german finance-minister Schäuble had the AUDACITY to demand that Greece first enact reforms BEFORE the EU throws their money down a black hole.