The government spokeswoman on Tuesday dismissed reports that the Tsipras government is considering snap elections or yet another referendum on creditors’ terms, with her comments coming amid a resumption of now pressing negotiations between Athens and its institutional lenders to achieve a first review of the Greek program.
In a press briefing, Olga Gerovassili also said the Greek government estimates that it will not need to take additional tax and spending cut measures for 2018, basing her prediction on the economy’s current performance, as she said.
Asked about the prospects of an agreement now for additional measures in case the goal of a 3.5-percent of GDP primary budget surplus is not met in 2018, the spokeswoman merely said such “scenarios” only show how difficult the leftist government’s task is in trying to work out an agreement with all four institutional creditors’ simultaneously.
