Tsipras calls for resignations over Baltakos affair

Alexis Tsipras said he was "shocked" with the revelations of the Baltakos-Kasidiaris discussion - which led to the resignation of the government's secretary general on Wednesday - while stressing that the prime minister also bears responsibility and called on him to provide explanations.

Tsipras added that a political and institutional issue exists, since the disclosures reveal the prime minister's way of thinking on a major issue concerning the political system's stability. We, he said, did not discover Golden Dawn's (Chryssi Avgi) criminal action with the killing, we were aware of it and we had denounced it many times.

He also said that SYRIZA had denounced the "selective relationships" between the Maximou Mansion and Golden Dawn and we now fully realise why Baltakos had stated about cooperation with Golden Dawn.