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Tsipras keeping options open ahead of Greece bailout vote

2015-07-02 2 Dailymotion

As Greece heads to a referendum this Sunday (July 5) on the country’s bailout terms opinion polls contradict each other. <br /><br /> One gives the “yes” campaign a four-point lead.<br /><br /> Another gave the “no” camp a nine-point lead. <br /><br /> Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s government is expected to fall if voters vote “yes” to the bailout plan. <br /><br /> He rejects what he calls the “blackmail” of EU and IMF lenders demanding spending cuts and tax hikes, and says Greece has other options. <br /><br /> “Our geopolitical orientation is indisputable,” Tsipras said. “However, there are other possibilities we can explore through our multidimensional foreign policy so our current geopolitical dynamics can be enhanced.” <br /><br /> Both Tsipras and his finance minister Yanis Varoufakis are convinced that if Greek voters reject the offer, Athens could negotiate better terms, including debt relief. <br /><br /> Varoufakis has tied his fate to Sunday’s outcome: he said he would resign if the government’s call for a “no” to the bailout terms were ig

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