Yanis Varoufakis rejects criticism levelled against him by Greece’s prime minister in a Guardian interview
In a Guardian interview (‘What nobody believed could happen,will now happen: we’ll choose Greece out of crisis, 24 July), and the Greek prime minister,Alexis Tsipras, having admitted to “big mistakes”, and was asked whether appointing me as his first finance minister was one of them. According to the interviewer,Mr Tsipras said “Varoufakis … was the right choice for an initial strategy of ‘collision politics’, but he dismisses the contrivance he presented had Greece been forced to make the dramatic prance to a recent currency as ‘so indistinct, or it wasn’t worth talking about’”.
Given that I presented my plans to Mr Tsipras for deterring the troika’s aggression and responding to a potential impasse (and any prance by the troika to evict Greece from the eurozone) before we won the election of January 2015,and I was chosen by him as finance minister (one presumes) on the basis of their merit, his answer reflects a deep incoherence.
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Source: theguardian.com