{"id":13334,"date":"2026-06-28T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13334"},"modified":"2026-06-28T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:00:00","slug":"stournaras-reveals-that-tsipras-was-considering-a-return-to-the-drachma-even-after-varoufakis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13334","title":{"rendered":"Stournaras reveals that Tsipras was considering a return to the drachma even after Varoufakis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Yannis Stournaras<\/b> made a significant revelation a few days ago, regarding which <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b>, the <b>ELAS<\/b> and <b>SYRIZA<\/b> have not said a word about it.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, a few days ago, <b>Yannis Stournaras<\/b> made a significant revelation in an interview with \u201cNea,\u201d made a significant revelation that shows just how dangerous <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b> and his government were for the economy and, more broadly, for the country: The Governor of the Bank of Greece revealed that the <b>SYRIZA<\/b> &#8211; <b>ANEL<\/b> was considering a parallel currency even after <b>Yanis Varoufakis<\/b> resigned from the Ministry of Finance.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, <b>Yannis Stournaras<\/b> provided details, noting that the then Minister of Finance and Development, <b>Dimitris Papadimitriou<\/b>, acting on the orders of <b>Yannis Dragasakis<\/b>, visited his office to discuss the possibility of a parallel currency. All of this took place while <b>Yanis Varoufakis<\/b> had resigned and the then-government of <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b> was supposedly not discussing a return to the drachma or an exit from the E.<\/p>\n<p>However, it appears that <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b>, along with his ideologically driven comrades, had always dreamed of turning Greece&#8230; Venezuela by leaving the euro and the European Union. Proving once again that the former prime minister was lying when he claimed he had no such plan in the works.<\/p>\n<h3>Tsipras\u2019s silence and the anniversary of capital controls<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The most interesting part of the story, however, is that so many days after <b>Stournaras\u2019s<\/b> interview, both <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b>, the <b>Hellenic Police<\/b>, and <b>SYRIZA<\/b> remain silent. Yet they are very vocal on a whole host of other issues, opposing even the&#8230; rabbit-headed ones.<\/p>\n<p>The truth, of course, is that the former prime minister and <b>ELAS<\/b> want us to forget 2015 and, more generally, the <b>SYRIZA<\/b> administration. They\u2019re supposedly proud of it, but they make sure not to mention it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And all this while today marks the 11th anniversary of when <b>capital controls <\/b>were imposed on Greece, with Greeks lining up at banks for 60 euros. This came after the supposedly proud negotiations led by <b>Tsipras<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h3>Dragasakis\u2019s response <\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In any case, for the record, <b>Yannis Dragasakis<\/b> replied that he never sent <b>Dimitris Papadimitriou<\/b> to discuss the parallel currency, claiming that he himself had always been&#8230; committed to the euro and Europe. For his part, <b>Dimitris Papadimitriou<\/b> emphasized that he had visited <b>Yannis Stournaras<\/b> as a professor and not as a minister, and that <b>Yannis Dragasakis<\/b> had nothing to do with the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it is well known who usually lies and who tells the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yannis Stournaras made a significant revelation a few days ago, about which Alexis Tsipras, the Hellenic Police, and SYRIZA have remained silent&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}