Shadow Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras

“The government has a clear mandate for a four-year term to make the great changes and reforms that Greece needs”, Prime Minister and leader of SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras stressed in his address to the Parliamentary Group of his party.

Major Greek opposition party New Democracy (ND) released a statement criticizing Greek PM Alexis Tsipras’s speech at the 70th annual UN assembly on the debt issue. In the harsh statement, ND blasted Tsipras for picking the wrong forum to bring up Greece’s debt issue accusing him of ‘pleading for a debt arrangement’.

Re-elected Greek PM Alexis Tsipras was the recipient of various calls by international leaders on Monday in the wake of his party’s first-place showing on Sunday, with reports stating that in her phone call Angela Merkel referred to Greece’s monstrous unemployment rate and the refugee / migrant crisis.

Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras said late on Thursday that the “recapitalization of Greek banks will start in October with the view to be completed by the end of 2015.” He made these comments on Star TV, underlining that since the recapitalization is will have been concluded by the end of 2015 there is no risk of a deposits haircut.

Former Prime Minister Anotnis Samaras spoke to Proto Thema about the current situation and stressed that the country needed a stable, reliable government of a four-year term of office, if possible, to correct the most extreme injustices of the new memorandum.

On the increasingly biting election front, former SYRIZA minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, the head of the leftist breakaway party Popular Unity, was scathing in his criticism of resigned PM Alexis Tsipras on Monday, charging that the latter erroneously believed the coming snap election would be a “cake walk”.

Greek polls suggest a tough election battle ahead with indecision prior to the September 20 election. A slight lead by the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) is subsiding with polls showing a fall in support for both the party and its leader, former prime minister Alexis Tsipras.

Conservative New Democracy party on Friday warned what’s left of the leftist SYRIZA government not to take actions or initiatives outside the current exploratory mandate process.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the ruling Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) retained a clear lead over the opposition, according to a barometer poll conducted by Public Issue and published in the Sunday edition of the leftist daily newspaper Avgi.

New Democracy suggested Tuesday that the government has no intention of seeking an agreement with the institutions and is instead focused on a rift that could lead Greece out of the euro.