From
16/1/2015
Pablo Garcia will arrive in Greece a
few days before the election on January 25 after this week’s surprise visit by
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy as the election battle in both countries
moves to Athens
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The leader of Spain’s Podemos will
join Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras in his final speech in Athens before the
election in what is being described as an alliance of southern Europe’s Left
against the EU’s neoliberalism and the harsh austerity policies represented by
Mariano Rajoy and Antonis Samaras.
Austerity measures in both countries have had a devastating effect with high unemployment and a drastic rise in poverty levels. Syriza wants at least half of the Greece's €240 billion euro bailout loans be forgiven.
The election is being closely followed in Spain and it is seen as a foretaste of the elections that will be held there later in the year.
Polls show that Syriza maintain a steady lead and Podemos - an upstart radical left party formed in 2014 - hopes it can build on its momentum back in Spain.
The two parties have developed close links and belong to the same group in European parliament and both want a drastic restructuring of the Greek debt.
The latest poll published conducted by Alco for the weekly To Pontiki newspaper (link in Greek) gives Syriza a 3.4 lead (32.4) over New Democracy (28.9) while aSpanish poll published last Sunday gives , Podemos (We Can) the lead in Spain.
In a video message last week , Garcia, 36, urged Greeks to ΄choose a Greek,΄ Syriza΄s leader Alexis Tsipras (40), over ΄Angela Merkel, who is supported by New Democracy and Pasok. Tsipras had attended the founding congress of Podemos last November.
The visit by Garcia comes after the surprise visit by Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy who defended Greece’s tough bailout programme.
"I am here to defend policies that were tough, that were complicated, that essentially created ... the need to take decisions which leaders don't normally want to take," Rajoy said, who stressed the need for stability..
“If we stay on the same good path, we will further grow our economies. What we need right now is stability and certainty, and no instability, and we need Europe,” he said..
The political uncertainty in Greece has renewed fears that it could be forced to exit the eurozone.
Austerity measures in both countries have had a devastating effect with high unemployment and a drastic rise in poverty levels. Syriza wants at least half of the Greece's €240 billion euro bailout loans be forgiven.
The election is being closely followed in Spain and it is seen as a foretaste of the elections that will be held there later in the year.
Polls show that Syriza maintain a steady lead and Podemos - an upstart radical left party formed in 2014 - hopes it can build on its momentum back in Spain.
The two parties have developed close links and belong to the same group in European parliament and both want a drastic restructuring of the Greek debt.
The latest poll published conducted by Alco for the weekly To Pontiki newspaper (link in Greek) gives Syriza a 3.4 lead (32.4) over New Democracy (28.9) while aSpanish poll published last Sunday gives , Podemos (We Can) the lead in Spain.
In a video message last week , Garcia, 36, urged Greeks to ΄choose a Greek,΄ Syriza΄s leader Alexis Tsipras (40), over ΄Angela Merkel, who is supported by New Democracy and Pasok. Tsipras had attended the founding congress of Podemos last November.
The visit by Garcia comes after the surprise visit by Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy who defended Greece’s tough bailout programme.
"I am here to defend policies that were tough, that were complicated, that essentially created ... the need to take decisions which leaders don't normally want to take," Rajoy said, who stressed the need for stability..
“If we stay on the same good path, we will further grow our economies. What we need right now is stability and certainty, and no instability, and we need Europe,” he said..
The political uncertainty in Greece has renewed fears that it could be forced to exit the eurozone.
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