“My five point plan”: a phrase borrowed from Ed Miliband* may have helped boost the chances of Alexis Tsipras, leader of radical left-wing Greek party SYRIZA, which stormed into second place in the Greek parliament.
Admittedly, the Tsipras plan is rather more radical than Miliband’s. It calls for:
- Cancelling the technocratic former government’s bailout terms, particularly its cuts to pensions and salaries.
- Overturning their abolition of collective bargaining and other laws that attack workers’ rights.
- Changes to improve democracy and social justice, from removing MPs immunity to prosecution to overhauling Greece’s proportional electoral law.
- A public review of Greek banks.
- A hold on all debt servicing, and an international committee examining the Greek deficit, particularly looking at whether any of the debt can be termed “odious”.
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