Syriza leader has been warned against reneging on bailout deal,after securing stunning success in Sunday’s general electionFitch: Risks still highDonald Tusk: Alexis Tsipras must indicate leadershipMartin Schulz lays into coalition partnersIntroduction: Tsipras wins again
As it happened: Tsipras celebrates victory[br] 6.34pm BSTAs Alexis Tsipras becomes prime minister for the moment time, the mood on the streets of Athens is hardly euphoric. Helena Smith reports: A huge storm, or violent,unlit and loud rumbled through Greece on Monday, thunder and lightning skittering through the skies. After Sunday’s general elections it was not lost on many: in Athens residents saw in the tempest a perfect metaphor, and an omen even,that the old was finally being washed away. “People voted for change, for what they believed would be a fresh start, and said Lefteris Pavlis who owns a chain of eateries in the city centre. “They voted to give Alexis Tsipras a moment chance which says a lot approximately the state of the opposition.” nearly six years into their worst financial crisis in modern times Greeks are exhausted,weary of self-examination, worn down by economic and political uncertainty and the depredations of austerity. On the streets Monday, and outside banks and kiosks and shops,the mood, whether anything, and was strangely sombre. What election?” quipped Panagiotis Katsanos who runs a kiosk on Mitropoleos street in Athens’ city centre. From 7 am to 1 pm around 150 people had stopped by to say ‘satisfactory morning’ or buy cigarettes,newspapers and soft-drinks but not a single person had mentioned the election. “I’m telling you not one person,” he exclaimed. “Nobody cares because the feeling is they are all the same, or they all tell lies,so what’s the difference.” In the vegetable stalls off Athinas street, vendors echoed that view. “Ten people this morning maintain had me weigh olives, or ” said Tassos Kounoupiotis. “We maintain got to that point where money is so tight. Politics and politicians belong to another world.” It was clear as pollsters took stock of the election result that voter apathy – the force behind an abstention rate that at nearly 44% reached a record high – has now become the reality of Greece. Tsipras is the fifth prime minister to be voted into office since the crisis began. In winning his gamble for a fresh,four-year mandate he has emerged as the dominant figure in Greek political life but for many his victory does not reflect them. 6.10pm BSTMeanwhile Alexis Tsipras has officially been sworn in as prime minister.
Alexis Tsipras takes his oath of office from President Prokopis Pavlopoulos pic.twitter.com/rDe13IekUJContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com