Samaras Tells ANT1 That SYRIZA Risks Excluding Greece from ECB's plan (VIDEO)

During a televised interview on an ANT1 morning talk show with host George Papadakis, Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras lashed out against main opposition Syriza claiming that with its policy, the party risks excluding Greece from the European Central Bank’s government bond-buying programme.

Speaking to Papadakis, Samaras said that though the ECB has warned Greece it would not be included in the plan unless it successfully concludes its troika review, Greece's main opposition party SYRIZA continues to claim it is not going to accept Greece's participation in a bailout program and wants to renegotiate its agreement with its lenders from scratch.

     "This means that for a whole year, while it will be 'raining' money, we won’t get a single drop," he said.
     "They (SYRIZA) were celebrating on Thursday and obviously they hadn’t read that for Greece to get the money the review needs to be concluded. This is the whole point and SYRIZA didn't take that into consideration."

Asked on those who accuse him for scare-mongering, he said:

     "When someone says I will not pay any debts and interest, I will print money, when someone says Cosco would better drop into the sea, when countries like China give jobs and hope to the people, when you say police and the Coast Guard will patrol unarmed, then who is creating fear? No one knows what SYRIZA wants today. Fear describes what they believe in."