DW: 100 days of Tsipras with chaos, frustration, and disarray

In a highly critical article, Wesel says in his first 100 days Alexis Tsipras has slammed shut every door and alienated his friends.

Syriza is a ‘circus’

The German journalist highlights the chaos within Syriza which she describes as a ‘circus’. She says that various ministers from different wings of the party contradicting each other and their prime minister in the course of a day, while, at the same time, seeking to play their negotiating partners off against one another.

At the end of the day no one knows what will stick, simply because it remains to be seen whether or not Tsipras can keep the Marxists, the Trotskyites, and the rest of the coffeehouse extremists in his party under control, Wesel says.

Tragedy for Greeks

That is all pretty entertaining for reporters, but could end up a tragedy for the Greek people.

Most Greeks continue to support remaining in the eurozone, as well as continuing to support Syriza. The citizens have yet to realize that those two things don’t fit together. They cannot vote away their debts. And they have to reform their economy in such a way that they can manage to pay for their own existence, she says.

The suffering must have an end: the government in Athens can immediately return to reality, voluntarily exit the eurozone, or hold new elections. Or even do all three at the same time, but another hundred days of the same is impossible, Wesel concludes.

source: Deutsche Welle