Syriza’s Party Leader Says Greece Will Resolve Debt Issue With Partners

Greece's Syriza party which is leading the parliamentary election in Greece will keep its pre-election promises to put an end to austerity measures and resolve the issue of the debt with its partners, Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the Syriza party said.

ATHENS, January 26 (Sputnik) — Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the Syriza party, which is leading the parliamentary election in Greece, said the party will keep its pre-election promises to put an end to austerity measures and resolve the issue of the debt with its partners.

"Greece has left behind the austerity, the fear, five years of deprivation. We go forward with hope, stability," Tsipras said at a spontaneous meeting in central Athens attended by thousands of people.

Although Syriza's leader stressed the troika of Greek creditors was left in the past, he vowed to continue to negotiations on country's debt issue.

"I want to assure you that in the interests of all people the new Greek government is ready to cooperate and negotiate with our partners for a fair, mutually beneficial, workable solutions to bring Greece out of the vicious circle of excessive debt, return it to Europe of stability, development," Tsipras said.

He added that Syriza's victory at the parliamentary election is the victory of all the European people, who are struggling against austerity.

In 2010, a troika of international creditors: International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank, agreed a 110 billion Euro ($146 billion) bailout package for Greece to prevent a default on its large debt.

On Sunday, Tsipras told journalists that Greece’s political course would continue to be pro-European after the election, but stressed that Europe’s austerity policy should be changed.

The major points of Tsipras' agenda are debt relief, a crackdown on tax evasion, as well as the introduction of economic reforms to secure prosperity in Greece.