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Given that he and his entire party are loudly supporting a "no" vote, I don't think this is the case. Their position is clear. They simply don't have a democra

by TillE 11y ago

Given that he and his entire party are loudly supporting a "no" vote, I don't think this is the case. Their position is clear. They simply don't have a democratic mandate to accept continued, worsened austerity. Everyone basically agrees that if the vote is "yes", that will be the end of the Syriza government. If it's "no", well, then they have the support to continue rejecting austerity.

return0 11y ago
> They simply don't have a democratic mandate they were elected this January (democratically)
- konstruktor 11y ago
  They were elected based on their promise not to accept more austerity. I would agree with parent that they don't have a democratic mandate to do the opposite now, even if they could legally do it.
- vacri 11y ago
  A mandate is an authorisation to do something, not an open-ended power. The rest of that quoteed phrase references what the mandate was about - they were elected on a campaign to do the opposite course of action.
  - return0 11y ago
    Then whats the point of the referendum. If they insist on non-austerity, make a plan outside the euro.
rsp1984 11y ago
I don't understand your point. Their democratic mandate is to say no to Trioka terms. Great. That's what they did and it resulted in the situation we have now. If they continue down the path of their mandate it will result in Greece exiting the Eurozone. This should not be a surprise to anyone. The other choice is to accept Troika terms, keep Greece in the Eurozone, and potentially lose face. In any case it is a situation that the Tsipras government caused, a situation that was predictable and a situation that they should have to deal with and stand by themselves. The whole point of having a government is that the people should not be faced with having to make these kinds of decisions that involve many complexities and have long-ranging consequences. Calling in a referendum for precisely these decisions is a declaration of incompetence.

by TillE 11y ago

return0 11y ago

> They simply don't have a democratic mandate they were elected this January (democratically)

konstruktor 11y ago
They were elected based on their promise not to accept more austerity. I would agree with parent that they don't have a democratic mandate to do the opposite now, even if they could legally do it.
vacri 11y ago
A mandate is an authorisation to do something, not an open-ended power. The rest of that quoteed phrase references what the mandate was about - they were elected on a campaign to do the opposite course of action.
- return0 11y ago
  Then whats the point of the referendum. If they insist on non-austerity, make a plan outside the euro.

rsp1984 11y ago

I don't understand your point. Their democratic mandate is to say no to Trioka terms. Great. That's what they did and it resulted in the situation we have now. If they continue down the path of their mandate it will result in Greece exiting the Eurozone. This should not be a surprise to anyone. The other choice is to accept Troika terms, keep Greece in the Eurozone, and potentially lose face. In any case it is a situation that the Tsipras government caused, a situation that was predictable and a situation that they should have to deal with and stand by themselves. The whole point of having a government is that the people should not be faced with having to make these kinds of decisions that involve many complexities and have long-ranging consequences. Calling in a referendum for precisely these decisions is a declaration of incompetence.