Greek SYRIZA leader: “We can change the political agenda … – HOME

Greek SYRIZA leader: "We can change the political agenda … – HOME

The Greek Alexis Tsipras, leader of SYRIZA and, according to most polls, future Greek Prime Minister was the most acclaimed at the close of the meeting we held on Saturday in Madrid foreign participant, but not alone. . Before he spoke Marisa Matias, MEP Portuguese Left Bloc, which is part of the United Left can and SYRIZA group in the European Parliament

They were the only two guests who took the stage; the rest, including a broad representation of Latin American party, a Kurdish representative and one Palestinian, the most acclaimed by the public after appealing Pablo Iglesias Spanish Government to “recognize Palestine” – followed the ceremony from the crowded stalls. The Secretary General can also threw a salute to Venezuela.

Marisa Matias appealed to the Portuguese lyric to vindicate the roots of a people who are free of the dictatorship “by the revolution of the carnations” and cited the Grandola Vila Morena Zeca Afonso and verses of songs Sergio Godinho, but who really has pocketed the audience was Tsipras your toast “to outraged Puerta del Sol”. A movement that, he said, broke out in the square and then lit in Greece, which has allowed his or games can change the political map of the European countries most affected by the crisis. “We’re not going to take no further action because return to recession,” he said in reference to Greece, where troika still demand more layoffs of officers or the end of the moratorium on evictions, theoretically in force until December .

“We can and must change the political agenda in Europe promoting development and job creation,” appealed Tsipras. “Before us a new future social justice and solidarity in the interests of citizens take precedence over the logic of financial gains is opened.”