BEIRUT: Praising the Greek people’s rejection of European creditors’ demands for more austerity in return for a loan, Lebanon’s Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt said his country could use someone like Greece’s premier to tackle its own economic problems.
“Greece’s step is huge and unprecedented in terms of how it influences the whole European reality, and [Greece’s] young Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was able to create substantive change in the relations with Europe to protect the rights of his country’s people,” Jumblatt said in his weekly column in Al-Anbaa Magazine.
Tsipras, the leader of the left-wing party Syriza elected in January, has been trying to negotiate a deal with lenders, including the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission, to prevent his country’s exit from the eurozone.