One million Greeks living outside Greece. Now urgency the home to vote on … – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Powered by patriotism and fear many of the roughly one million Greeks living outside Greece, swift back to their home country in order to participate in the referendum Sunday.

It writes British The Guardian.

The rules for referendums in Greece says namely that the person must be present to cast their vote.

Therefore, they have about one million Greeks who do not live in Greece, had just over a week in which to come home after Greece’s Prime Minister Alex Tsipras announced late last week that he would hold a referendum on whether Greece should say yes or no to its European creditors proposal loan agreement.

Sun gets Tsipras therefore his answer from the Greeks.

Will vote yes

For The Guardian says the Greek and London-resident Christopher Ioakimidis that he would vote yes to the proposed loan agreement. An EU exit, according to he himself be disastrous for his family business, a medical import company.

He also fears that an exit from the EU will also put his London residence in danger.

– How much tickets cost, was not so important. If there is a big “no” and we leave the euro zone, I know that I had not been able to forgive myself for not having comet back to Greece to vote, says Ioakimidis according to the British newspaper.

They also wrote that most utflytterne they have spoken with, were all interested in voting yes to the loan agreement from Greece’s European creditors.

– Vote NO

When voices If so utflytterne against its own Prime Minister’s call. As recently as yesterday, Friday urged Tsipras again Greece’s citizens to say no to the loan agreement. This time in front of demonstrators in Athens.

Earlier Friday were violent clashes between protesters and police.

Prime Minister Tsipras and Greece’s Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has powerful reservation by accepting the creditors’ loan requirements, which they believe is all too strict.

Not later than Saturday morning called Treasury Varoufakis EU and creditors’ treatment of Greece for “terrorism”, according to The Telegraph.

– What they do with Greece has a name – terrorism . The Brussels and the troika will have the yes side to win so they can humiliate Greeks. Why they forced us to close the banks? To put fear into people. And spreading fear is called terrorism.

He also repeated his promise that he will resign if Greece votes yes to the creditor agreement. Earlier this week he said that he would rather cut off his own arm than to sign an agreement that does not include debt relief, according to The Telegraph.

Uncertain how many traveling

This is according to The Guardian unclear exactly how many Greeks who will return home to participate in the referendum. The Greek airline Aegan Airlines, however, have set up extra flights between Athens and London and Brussels and London because of the large influx.

Also from several German cities will the sale of tickets to Athens have skyrocketed.