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ND says it’s more worried after PM’s admission of approving ‘Plan B’

ND says it’s more worried after PM’s admission of approving ‘Plan B’

Responding to Friday's comments in Parliament by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, in which the premier admitted to have authorized former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to draft a contigency plan for a Greek eurozone exit, conservative New Democracy said it was more concerned now than before.

"What exactly did Mr Tsipras give an order for? At the beginning he told us he had authorized to determine the repercussions of a Grexit," ND said. "Now he is saying something else, namely that he give the order for the drafting of a Plan B in the case of an emergency."

Responding to Tsipras' claim that it was only natural for his government to have a contingency plan when Greece's partners were also bracing for Grexit, ND remarked, "When there is fear that they are trying to push you out of the euro, you try to thwart this, not bring it closer."

ND's statement queried what this "Plan B" entailed. "Did it include a raid on the mint, the issuing of IOUs? Did it involve a parallel payment system? And to what extent are these things constitutional?"

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