German Tabloid Issues Insulting Election Warning to Greece

Politics » BULGARIA IN EU | June 17, 2012, Sunday // 17:53
Bulgaria: German Tabloid Issues Insulting Election Warning to Greece A man casts his ballot in a polling station in Athens, Greece, 17 June 2012. EPA/BGNES

German tabloid Bild has issued a letter of instructions to Greek voters for what some believe to be crucial parliamentary elections taking place Sunday.

The vote comes in the wake of May 6 snap elections that failed to choose a Parliament capable of forming a coalition government.

Some now fear that the strong position of leftist coalition SYRIZA, which is against austerity measures, might adversely affect both Greece's recovery prospects and the stability of the whole Eurozone.

Bild's open letter to the Greek nation, published in both German and Greek Saturday, reads as follows, according to the translation by Athens News:

"Dear Greeks,

You are a proud people, a proud nation. Sunday you have yet another set of elections. You say: We're free. Bild says: It's in your hands. There is a difference.

If you did not want our billions, it would have been fine by us for you to vote for any leftists or rightist clown you wanted. But for over two years now, the situation is like this:

Your ATMs continue to give you euros, only because we put them there, the Germans and the other nations that have the euro. Yet you still, calls us Nazis, which we do not fine funny. But anyway.

But let's be clear on this: If the elections are won by parties that want to put an end to austerity and reform, breaching every agreement, we will stop paying.

The agreement was: you fix your country and meanwhile we will help you. If you do not want this anymore, then we do not want it either.

It's in your hands. You have elections Sunday. But you have no options. You will choose between painful logic and complete disaster. And we are very much afraid that you don't get that yet.

Yours in friendship, Your Bild."

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