The SYRIZA lawmaker blamed the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble for the Drachma issue saying “If the other [side] opens the door [to the issue], what will you say? I don’t talk about it? it is Schaeuble saying this.”

But most of all, Xydakis shocked the political world and sparked an outrage. Immediate was the reaction coming from opposition parties. They demanded that the government clarifies whether it plans to take the country out of the eurozone.