'Having elections in 2016 is like saying that the sun will go out,'

“Having elections in 2016 is like saying that the sun will go out,” SYRIZA spokesman Panos Skourletis told Skai TV…

“The country’s problem today is that it has a powerless government, a powerless coalition government, which is not representative

while at the same time it is called to handle very critical issues that do not only concern the period until 2016 but also the next decades. I think this constitutes the basis of delegitimation for a minority government to be able to handle such critical issues on its own,” he added.

Skourletis accused Prime Minister Antonis Samaras of “refusing concession so that a more representative Parliament can elect a President after the elections.”

“The next Parliament, which will be more representative and genuine, will have to decide on the person. From this point onwards, I think we should all submit our political commitment that we will move in a concessionary manner. And beware of the contradiction; while Samaras is seeking the concession of 180 votes, he refuses it to the next Parliament.

And he reveals himself. You know why? Because Samaras is not after understanding or concession. He has chosen tension and doomsday rhetoric as a permanent strategy and obviously if he accepted fundamentally the discussion way that SYRIZA has proposed he would have his pre-election tactic weakened.

This is what it is all about. Therefore, that makes him quite extreme, just as he has shown he has been extreme through his whole political course.”