Minister of State Nikos Pappas, one of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ closest associates, on Thursday was the latest Cabinet member to criticize the IMF for the fund’s perceived intransigence in talks with the Greek side over the first review of the third bailout program.
The Washington D.C.-based Fund is one of four institutional creditors in multifaceted and ongoing negotiations with Athens, the so-called “quartet”.
“Whoever wants the agreement to change must first emerge and do so publicly; to persuade European national parliaments to change it (agreement), and secondly, to support their argument, something that I see as even harder to do,” Pappas told a local radio station.
In an unrelated development, he said the government intends to unveil the framework for a tender of broadcast TV licenses next week – an issue that has generated heated criticism and opposition by other political parties and the current television operators in the country.
