It appears that behind closed doors, the leaders of the ruling party confessed what they still refuse to admit publicly: that the clean exit from the bailout memorandum has absolutely no basis in reality, and that the end of the memorandum that the prime minister signed nearly two-and-a-half years ago allows no room for triumphant declarations.

As Ta Nea’s report today highlights, that was exactly the climate at the meeting of the Syriza party’s Political Secretariat yesterday.

Instead of euphoria, there was a pensive atmosphere regarding the day after the exit from the fiscal adjustment programme.

The anxiety that the end of the programme, with its austerity measures and funding, will be followed by yet another programme, with austerity measures but no funding, prevailed, along with the certainty that the stranglehold of foreign supervision will continue beyond this coming August.

Unfortunately for our country, a clean exit from supervision is impossible, as much as the government may want to present public opinion with a positive narrative.

A clean exit is impossible because the ruling coalition parties themselves, with their reckless policies, triggered a crisis within the crisis, the weighty repercussions of which will be with us for many years to come.

The Syriza-Independent Greeks government was elected on a huge lie. It now has only one path: to publicly confess what it admitted behind closed doors.

Τελευταία Νέα