The Minister of Finances Yannis Stournaras and the leader of SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras had a heated debate in Parliament earlier this morning, after the opposition leader posed a question to the Prime Minister about the recent banking scandals.
Mr. Stournaras responded that the government still has a long way ahead of itself and spoke of “an unprecedented purge” which is “in progress in all sectors”. The Minister argued that his goal is to ensure that the banks are gradually released from the Financial Stability Fund, while stressing that steps have been taken to increase bank audits.
Mr. Tsipras commented that “the Greek people are down on their knees so that the banks continue to profit” and stressed that contrary to other cases countries where the bailouts ensured public interests, “plundering prevailed in Greece“.
The SYRIZA leader claimedthat “a new Parliament” would elect the next President of Democracy, echoing Mr. Papoulias’ recent announcement and accused Mr. Stournaras of being completely dependent on the German Minister of Finances’ whims regarding negotiations for the debt.
