Timeline: tsipras

2015-08-21 11:42:00sentencessite
  • Tsipras is hoping to strengthen his hold on power in a snap election after seven months in office in which he fought Greece's creditors for a better bailout deal but had to cave in and accept more onerous terms.
  • A deputy speaker of parliament announced the new party would be called Popular Unity and headed by former Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, who was fired by Tsipras earlier this year for refusing to back the government.
2015-08-21 10:43:19sentencessite
  • Far left splits from Tsipras as Greece heads to elections
2015-08-21 04:12:18sentencessite
  • Tsipras insists that he had to accept the unpalatable bailout terms to keep Greece in the euro, the EU's common currency.
2015-08-21 04:09:22sentencessite
  • Tsipras announced his government's resignation and called early elections Thursday, seeking to consolidate his mandate to implement a new three-year international bailout that sparked a rebellion within his radical left Syriza party.
2015-08-21 04:02:46sentencessite
  • Tsipras' reversal in accepting the demands by the country's creditors led to outrage among hardliners in his Syriza party, which hamstrung his coalition.
  • Greece's European creditors did not appear dismayed by Tsipras' move, which was widely expected.
  • Tsipras had delayed a decision on whether to call new elections until after Greece received its first installment from the bailout and made a debt repayment to the European Central Bank; it did both Thursday.
2015-08-21 04:02:46sentencessite
  • Greece's Tsipras bets on early polls to boost reform mandate
  • Although Tsipras is widely tipped to win the election, if he fails to secure an outright majority he would have to seek a complex coalition deal that could hamper his ability to govern in the long term.
  • If Tsipras wins the elections, a new mandate will allow him to move away from the rebels in his party, some of whom have openly advocated leaving the euro and returning to the drachma.
2015-08-21 01:05:34sentencessite
  • Tsipras nevertheless remains popular among his supporters for trying to stand up to the foreign creditors and with the opposition in disarray, he is widely expected to return to power.
2015-08-21 01:05:34sentencessite
  • Meimarakis took aim at Tsipras.
2015-08-20 19:41:54sentencessite
  • Tsipras resigns, paving way for snap Greek election
2015-08-20 18:49:11sentencessite
  • Syriza rebels had mutinied in three separate parliamentary votes tied to the bailout, effectively leaving Tsipras at the head of a minority coalition government.
2015-08-20 18:28:25sentencessite
  • Greek leader Tsipras calls elections after party rebellion
2015-08-20 18:28:25sentencessite
  • Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras leaves his office in Athens, on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015.
2015-08-20 17:44:00sentencessite
  • "The political mandate of the January 25 elections has exhausted its limits and now the Greek people have to have their say," Tsipras said.
2015-08-20 15:53:39sentencessite
  • Greece's Tsipras resigns, calls snap polls
2015-08-20 15:53:39sentencessite
  • Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced his resignation and called for snap elections, as he went on the offensive to defend the country's massive bailout after it triggered a rebellion within his own party.
2015-08-20 14:53:35sentencessite
  • Greek bailout: Alexis Tsipras 'to call snap elections'
2015-08-19 19:07:05sentencessite
  • Germany backs Greek bailout as Tsipras mulls early polls
2015-08-17 10:01:42sentencessite
  • Tsipras likely to call confidence vote after party revolt
2015-08-14 09:55:15sentencessite
  • Tsipras had argued there was no choice, but to agree to he swingeing cuts and sell-offs demanded by its international creditors "to assure the country's ability to survive and keep on fighting".
2015-08-14 09:55:15sentencessite
  • Tsipras appealed to other EU countries to reject the alternative solution that Germany was suggesting, which he claimed would only prolong the agony.
  • A majority of 222 MPs approved the 400-page draft deal with 64 voting against, including 40 from Tsipras' own leftist party ranks.
  • Tsipras said that failure to ratify the deal would enable Germany to push forward its proposal for a bridging loan.
2015-07-31 04:01:06sentencessite
  • Tsipras effectively lost his majority in parliament in a vote three weeks ago, when nearly one-fourth of Syriza's lawmakers refused to back new austerity measures.
  • "We have to agree that we can't go on this way," Tsipras told the committee members during a dramatic 12-hour meeting.
  • Also on Friday, Tsipras is due to appear in parliament to answer qustions from the opposition about contingency plans to adopt a parallel payment system that could have facilitated a euro exit.
2015-07-31 01:08:07sentencessite
  • Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addresses a meeting of his ruling radical left Syriza party's central committee in Athens, on Thursday, July 30, 2015.
  • Syriza's governing central committee early Friday backed a proposal by Tsipras to hold an emergency party conference in September, after the talks have been concluded.
2015-07-26 18:48:07sentencessite
  • Greek PM Tsipras under pressure over covert Syriza drachma plan reports
2015-07-26 18:48:07sentencessite
  • The reports came at the end of a week of fevered speculation over what Syriza hardliners had in mind as an alternative to the tough bailout terms that Tsipras reluctantly accepted to keep Greece in the euro.
2015-07-26 14:44:22sentencessite
  • Under the plan, which the report said went back to before Tsipras was elected in January, transactions through the parallel system would have been nominated in euros but could easily change into drachmas overnight, he was quoted as saying.
  • The center-right New Democracy party and the centrist To Potami and the Socialist Pasok parties, which all backed Tsipras in parliamentary votes on the bailout this month, demanded a response to the reports.
  • However, according to the report, he said the plan had never been approved by Tsipras.