Costas Lapavitsas

Some leftist SYRIZA deputies were inside the Parliament plenary session during debate on Saturday over a snap referendum called by PM Alexis Tsipras hours earlier, yet at least another two or more were … outside, standing in line at an ATM waiting to withdraw cash!

Top government and ruling SYRIZA party officials met in the Maximos Mansion on Wednesday in a much-anticipated session chaired by PM Alexis Tsipras, a day after his government presented and won conditional support of a tax-for- cash deal with institutional creditors.

Dissent within SYRIZA over the prospect of a compromise with creditors bringing more austerity measures surfaced over the weekend with the party?s radical Left Platform proposing that Greece stop paying its creditors if they continue with ?blackmailing tactics,? and seek an ?alternative plan.?

The list of witnesses who will be called to testify before the parliamentary committee set up to examine the circumstances under which Greece agreed to bailouts with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund will be finalized on Tuesday.

Most of the witnesses are expected to be individuals who held office between October 2009 and January 2015.

One of ruling SYRIZA’s more outspoken far-left cadres, the London-based academic and economist Costas Lapavitsas, on Monday landed in the Guardian’s inner pages with his cure for Greece’s economic ills – leave the euro!

SYRIZA is due to announce its candidates for the upcoming elections Friday. They will include some independent MPs who did not vote in favor of the government?s presidential candidate last month, while other lawmakers who contributed to snap elections being called have been left out.