Tsipras Pledges to Lead Greece out of Crisis by 2019

  25 September 2015    Read: 657
Tsipras Pledges to Lead Greece out of Crisis by 2019
Greece`s newly re-elected prime minister is pledging to fast-track negotiations with the country`s bailout creditors, with a view to bringing the country out of its debilitating financial crisis by 2019.
Alexis Tsipras told his first Cabinet meeting Friday that by the end of his four-year mandate he also hopes to have extracted Greece from strict supervision by creditors.

He said his first, urgent priority will be to launch talks on reducing the country`s crippling debt burden and boost the country`s battered banking system.

Tsipras, 41, heads a left-led coalition following last Sunday`s election.

He called the snap polls seven months into his first mandate, after hardline left-wingers in his Syriza party rebelled against a policy U-turn that saw Greece signing a third international bailout — accompanied by new austerity measures.

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