FOCUS: Tsipras' seven lies

This is what German magazine Focus reports, which in a highly critical report lists the "seven lies of Tsipras”. As stated in the preface, "Tsipras repeatedly lied to the Greeks."

"Right now nothing goes smoothly for Tsipras. SYRIZA has dissolved, the mood has changed in the country, as many people recognize how Tsipras gave them empty promises for months and is now paying the price. His former companions attack him, and even his speech writer has abandoned him."

The seven lies of Tsipras, according to Focus, are:

1. Tsipras promised the Greeks wage and pension increases and tax cuts: For example, ENFIA abolition of 13th pension, raising the minimum wage to 751 euros, and tax free income at 12,000 euros annually.

2. "With us there will be no new memorandums." As Focus notes, the Troika was renamed Institutions, but eventually Tsipras accepted a new package.

3. Combating corruption. Tsipras promised the Greek people that the rich will pay, and that he will search past scandals, but passed legislation which forgave debts and fines, as for the sugar industry.

4. The Tsipras referendum was the biggest lie. The referendum cost Greece 28.7 million euros, Tsipras promised that the "No" vote would bring a better deal, but eventually what he signed was worse than the Juncker proposal. The referendum resulted in a farce, says the German magazine.

5. "There is no question ofcapital controls.” On June 18, the government spokesman, Gabriel Sakellaridis, stated publicly that there will be no capital controls and ten days later the banks closed.

6. "There will be no new elections." In mid-August the government leaked that it would seek a vote of confidence and a few days later Tsipras called elections.

7. "We're every word of this Constitution." With this phrase Alexis Tsipras criticized the previous government of New Democracy, but eventually he came to withhold the reserves of universities and hospitals and imposed capital controls without seeking a vote of the House.