Anonymous demands referendum in Greece
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Here some background on the tipping point that is nearing thanks to the Greek mobilization, from Jerome Roos:
“Signs are emerging from Greece that the roar of the ‘indignants’, who have taken to Parliament every single day for the past two weeks, attracting hundreds of thousands of protesters last Sunday, may finally be breaching through the seemingly impenetrable halls of power.
Last night, after a seven-hour meeting with his Cabinet, Prime Minister Papandreou declared that he was “prepared for the great changes that we are putting forward, to use even the institution of a referendum, for the broadest possible consent or opinion.”
Greece is currently negotiating a second round of draconian austerity measures in return for a second ‘bailout’ by the European Union. But despite a near-complete media black-out on the protests, the recent outbreak of mass anti-austerity protests seems to have shell-shocked the political class.
As Alastair Newton put it for Bloomberg the other day, “the current wave of protests across Greece isn’t like the familiar anarchic ones. They look and feel more like Argentina a decade ago. That does not bode well for the political establishment as a whole.”
Apparently jolted by these mass protests, a number of backbenchers from Papandreou’s Socialist party have been reported to be staging a revolt. Yesterday, the Guardian reported that, “with protests dividing his own party and tens of thousands taking to the streets,” Papandreou is facing “what could be his most critical week in office.”
According to one of Papandreou’s senior aids, “there is a real risk of internal revolt. There is some discussion of the prime minister calling a referendum.” Jens Bastian, an economist at Oxford University, argued that “the coming weeks may well test the seams of Pasok in parliament and could prove a challenge too much for Papandreou.”
June 10th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
The revolution is not being televised.
A referendum in favour of default would spread to Ireland, Spain and Portugal. The US is heavily committed to these countries. The financial system would be severely injured if Greece decide to default.
It will very interesting to see how this revolution proceeds but I’m not expecting Sky TV to broadcast it. Long live the internet (and anonymous)!