{"id":4798,"date":"2015-01-23T09:05:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T14:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4798"},"modified":"2015-01-23T09:05:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T14:05:17","slug":"syriza-leads-in-6-polls-leader-tsipras-shuns-merkel-says-wont-honor-commitments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4798","title":{"rendered":"Syriza Leads In 6 Polls; Leader Tsipras Shuns Merkel, Says &#8220;Won&#8217;t Honor Commitments&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-01-23\/syriza-leads-6-polls-leader-tsipras-shuns-merkel-says-wont-honor-commitments\" target=\"_blank\">Syriza Leads In 6 Polls; Leader Tsipras Shuns Merkel, Says &#8220;Won&#8217;t Honor Commitments&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>With the leads in at least six polls (of between 4% and 10%), Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras has come out swining for the anti-EU vote this morning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>*TSIPRAS SAYS\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ONLY SYRIZA CAN END GREECE&#8217;S CATASTROPHIC COURSE<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>*TSIPRAS SAYS\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WON&#8217;T HONOR COMMITMENTS MADE BY PREVIOUS GOVT<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>*TSIPRAS SAYS WILL NEGOTIATE WITH EUROPEAN PEERS\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NOT WITH MERKEL<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For now Greek assets remain bid on the glorious awesomeness of Draghi but we suspect &#8211; though The ECB gave themn room to negotiate and Djisselblom mentioned the possibility of &#8216;working&#8217; with Greece &#8211; that if things go as the polls suggest Monday could see more bloodletting in EURUSD (and bank runs in Greece).<\/p>\n<p>As Bloomberg reports, Tsipras had a lot more to say&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">Greeks called on Jan. 25 to decide whether to continue with the tragedy of catastrophic austerity or whether to return to growth, democracy<\/div>\n<p><strong>Many Greeks turning to Syriza not because of ideology but out of need<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tax burden needs to be eased for middle class, Syriza would abolish property tax, introduce levy for large real estate holdings<\/p>\n<p>ECB QE decision was \u201chistoric\u201d, pleased by turn away from austerity to measures aimed at boosting growth<\/p>\n<p>Syriza knows obligation arising from membership in European institutions,\u00a0<strong>austerity wasn\u2019t part of EU\u2019s founding treaty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Syriza doesn\u2019t recognize commitments made by previous govt that will bind new administration<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keeptalkinggreece.com\/2015\/01\/23\/two-days-before-elections-syriza-leads-in-six-polls\/\"><em>As Keep Talking Greece blog reports,\u00a0<\/em><\/a>2 days before the election, Syriza leads in six polls:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syriza Leads In 6 Polls; Leader Tsipras Shuns Merkel, Says &#8220;Won&#8217;t Honor Commitments&#8221; With the leads in at least six polls (of between 4% and 10%), Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras has come out swining for the anti-EU vote this morning: *TSIPRAS SAYS\u00a0ONLY SYRIZA CAN END GREECE&#8217;S CATASTROPHIC COURSE *TSIPRAS SAYS\u00a0WON&#8217;T HONOR COMMITMENTS MADE BY PREVIOUS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[195,284,285,1167,2236,2858],"class_list":["post-4798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-debt","tag-european-union","tag-eurozone","tag-greece","tag-syriza","tag-tsipras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4799,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions\/4799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}