Kammenos Calls for Resistance to Austerity

Independent Greeks party leader Panos Kammenos on Saturday charged the government and Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras in particular with leading the Greek people to poverty. In the second memorandum "they are talking about the end of 2014," he said, referring to forecasts of when the economy will start reviving, "the truth however is that they want us to keep going like this to 2040."

The state news agency quoted Kammenos as saying that "we must send a message of resistance" and called on Greek citizens to react to the austerity measures, charging the coalition government with "faithfully following the dictates of a foreign junta," referring to the troika of lenders.