As if tons of daily press analysis about a potential Grexit (or "Graccident") weren't enough speculation to tarnish whatever hopes of a Greece - EU compromise are left, now sources from inside ruling SYRIZA party are leaking the catastrophic Grexit scenario -apparently as a last resort- to British newspaper The Telegraph.
The government is getting ready for a doomsday scenario: to nationalize the country’s banks and return to the the drachma, the Telegraph reported citing sources from inside ruling SYRIZA party.
“We are a left-wing government. If we have to choose between a default to the IMF or a default to our own people, it is a no-brainer,” a senior official told The Daily Telegraph.
“We will shut down the banks and nationalize them, and then issue IOUs if we have to, and we all know what this means. What we will not do is become a protectorate of the EU,” according to another source.
The Greek government has €463.1 million of IMF loans to be repaid by April 9 and another €768 million falling due in May.
After Greece repays this, and the EU approves the reform proposals by Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, the Troika of lenders- the IMF, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission, is expected to release the next €7.2 billion tranche to Athens.
According to one senior official, SYRIZA and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras have the power to decide not to make the upcoming payments.
“We may have to go into a silent arrears process with the IMF. This will cause a furor in the markets and means that the clock will start to tick much faster,” the source told The Telegraph.
Source: The Telegraph
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