On Sunday, the Greeks voted "No" to accepting creditor demands for spending cuts and tax increases in exchange for another loan.
“The people's response was deafening. Sixty-two percent of our people sent messages to multiple recipients,” Sofia Sakorafa said.
According to the lawmaker, the first message was “the unequivocal rejection of the austerity programs,” that would increase debt, unemployment and poverty and create a recession in the country.
“The third message is addressed to the whole domestic rotten political and media system," the European Parliament's member asserted.
She pointed out, that prior to the referendum, "intertwining media" and "former prime ministers, ministers and political staff who bear tremendous responsibility for the current situation in Greece, were recruited in the name of ‘Yes.’"
"Our people turned their back on them once and for all," Sakorafa said.
European Council President Donald Tusk’s statement at Tuesday’s emergency eurozone summit said that the final deadline for achieving an agreement on Greek bailout expires Sunday.
Greece's overall debt stands at about $350 billion, of which $270 billion is owed to the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund and some eurozone countries.
