Athens, Greece (CNN) — Greek leftist leader Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday laid out the radical agenda he hopes to pursue if he becomes prime minister, including the cancellation of severe budget-cutting measures forced on the country by international lenders.
Laws which cut pensions and salaries and those which “cancel basic workers’ rights” must be annulled, Tsipras said as he started efforts to form a governing coalition in the wake of parliamentary elections on Sunday.
He also called for state control of the banks, which “remain in the hands of the managers who bankrupted the system,” he said.
The Greek people voted clearly to reject the austerity demanded by international lenders, Syriza Party leader Tsipras said.
The two parties that made the agreement with international lenders “don’t have a majority any more to vote for the plundering of the Greek people,” Tsipras told lawmakers.
Tsipras met Greek President Karolos Papoulias earlier on Tuesday to get instructions to try to cobble together a government in the wake of elections that left the country’s political system in chaos.
Syriza will have three days to form a government.
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