Among the prominent MPs of the Popular Unity are ex social security minister Stratoulis, Drachma-supporters Lapavistas, Leoutskos, as well as ex deputy Finance Minister Nandia Valavani.

Ex Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis does not seem willing to join the “Popular Unity”, while it is unclear what are the intentions of Parliament Speaker Zoi Konstantopoulou who have repeatedly voted against the bills of SYRIZA and the creditors.

Seit Ausbruch der Eurokrise befindet sich Griechenland im Zangengriff der Troika aus IWF, EZB und Europäischer Komission. Deutschland ist die treibende Kraft innerhalb der Troika und sorgt dafür, dass die verheerenden Sparauflagen durchgesetzt werden.

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„We will become a major and decisive political force,“ he said, adding that the grouping of 25 MPs „will try to express the spirit and substance of the 62 percent who voted no to austerity,“ referring to last month‘s referendum on austerity measures proposed by Greece‘s creditors.

„The ‚no‘ of the referendum will not be an ‚orphan‘ in these elections,“ Lafazanis told MPs and reporters in Parliament.

These goals cannot be realized without exiting the Eurozone as the recent disaster has abundantly demonstrated and without breaking with the whole set of policies institutionalized by the EU. The front will also struggle for a unitary internationalist struggle around common objectives at the European and international level and will support exiting NATO, breaking the existing agreements between Greece and Israel and radically opposing imperialist wars and interventions. This transitional programme is situated in the perspective of a socialism of the 21st century.
The third is that this new parliamentary group is now the third in terms of its size in the Greek Parliament, ahead of Golden Dawn, the neonazi party. This means that in the next few days its leader, Panagiotis Lafazanis, will get a mandate to constitute a government that will last for three days, as the Greek constitution stipulates.

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Bis auf den Verkauf von Häfen und Flughäfen war bisher in der Öffentlichkeit wenig bekannt, was tatsächlich laut den Plänen verkauft werden soll. Nicht zuletzt deshalb veröffentlichte der deutsche grüne EU-Abgeordnete Sven Giegold nun die Liste – zusammengetragen von der griechischen Privatisierungsgesellschaft Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) auf Basis der Einigung mit den Geldgebern von Ende Juli.

Germany has been criticised for pushing Greece to sell off its water utilities when many of Europe’s largest cities, including Berlin, are buying back theirs

Angeblich 50 Milliarden Euro soll die Privatisierung von öffentlichem Eigentum in Griechenland einbringen. Die Summe wirkt sehr hoch. Bisher war der Öffentlichkeit und auch in Griechenland kaum bekannt, was genau privatisiert werden soll. Im Zuge der Verhandlungen über ein neues Griechenland-Paket wurde die Liste der Privatisierungen überarbeitet. Unten finden Sie die aktuelle Liste. Gerade die Menschen in Griechenland haben darüber ein Recht auf Transparenz.

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Under Greece‘s constitution, the three biggest parties in parliament are given a three-day mandate to form a government following the resignation of Alexis Tsipras as prime minister.

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Die neue Fraktion ist die drittstärkste Kraft im Athener Parlament – nach der Syriza-Partei mit jetzt nur noch 124 Abgeordneten und der konservativen Nea Dimokratia (ND) mit 76 Abgeordneten.

The party will be led by former energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, who was strongly opposed to the bailout deal, reports say.

A list of MPs joining the party published by the Ta Nea newspaper showed that the parliamentary speaker Zoe Konstantopulou and former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis were not among its members.

Syriza-Regeirungschef Tsipras musste das Austeritäts- wie Ausverkaufspaket, dass im Gegenzug Kreditumschuldungen über 86,6 Milliarden in Kraft setzt (davon allein 25 Mrd zur Rekapitalisierung der griechischen Banklen gehen auf das Konto der deutschen Dikat-Politik!) durch das griechische Parlament nur mit den Stimmen der Opposition von Nea Demokratia prügeln.

Die öffentliche Verschuldung Griechenlands stieg bis Ende Juni 2015 auf 312,8 Milliarden Euro, während die Kassenbestände des Fiskus auf unter 80 Millionen sanken.

At his press conference today at the Carter Center, President Jimmy Carter announced he is being treated for cancer in his brain and he will accept whatever comes in months or years ahead (years, let’s hope!). He was asked about his top priorities “in the time that you have left,” the problems whose resolution would give him “the greatest satisfaction for the world.”

An Israeli air strike against a Syrian military outpost in the Golan Heights killed one soldier and wounded seven, a Syrian army source said on Friday, during the heaviest night of Israeli bombardment since the start of Syria‘s four-year-old conflict.

Turkey has taken the first step towards setting up a buffer zone in northern Syria by assisting Turkmen militia to enter the country and set up base near the border.

“We need them also as a neighbor to this conflict zone, as a long-time NATO ally and a responsible member of the anti-ISIL coalition, to control the border, the long border that they have with both Syria and Iraq, more than it has been controlled over the last year.”