Thessaloniki Programme

This article is part of a series about Alexis Tsipras
Political offices President of Syriza (2008–2023) Opposition Leader (2012–15; 2019–2023) Prime Minister of Greece (2015; 2015–19) Early political life Genoa G8 summit Protests 2006 Athens Mayoral election Leader of the Opposition First term First Shadow Cabinet Thessaloniki Programme 2014–15 presidential election Second term Second Shadow Cabinet 2020 presidential election COVID-19 pandemic in Greece 2021 Greek protests Wiretapping Scandal Prime Minister of Greece First term January 2015 legislative election Government formation First Tsipras cabinet 2014-2015 presidential election Relaunch of ERT 2015 bailout referendum Tenth austerity package Eleventh austerity package Third Memorandum Second term September 2015 legislative election Second Tsipras cabinet 2015 European migrant crisis Twelfth austerity package Cohabitation Agreement Thirteenth austerity package Turkish military asylum incident Prespa agreement Kleisthenis I 2018 Attica wildfires July 2019 election
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The Thessaloniki Programme is a

After Syriza won a majority in legislative elections held on 25 January 2015, Tsipras became Prime Minister of Greece and brokered a coalition with the right-wing anti-austerity Independent Greeks with the shared goal of immediate realisation of the programme.^[3] An official Syriza statement promised that the "new government will implement the Thessaloniki program to end the humanitarian crisis".^[4]

On 13 July 2015, the Greek government and the European creditors reached an agreement under which the government had to implement harsh austerity measures, which effectively made the major economic measures proposed by the Thessaloniki programme virtually impossible to implement.^[5]

The Four Pillars of the National Reconstruction Plan

The programme is based on four pillars:

1. Confronting the humanitarian crisis
2. Restarting the economy and promoting tax justice
3. National plan to regain employment
4. Transforming the political system to deepen democracy

At the European level, the programme demands a "European

At the time of its publication, the programme was criticised by the New Democracy–led government for underestimating the costs of its pledges.^[7] Since then, it has also been criticised from within Syriza. In January 2015, Central Committee member Stathis Kouvelakis stated that the programme "was based on very over-optimistic estimates (or even simply wrong ones)".^[8]

See also

• Anti-austerity protests
• Greek government-debt crisis

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