SYRIZA' Tsipras did not accept the exploratory mandate
Main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras turned down the second exploratory mandate to form a government, offered to him by President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou when he visited the presidential mansion on Tuesday.
As he explained to the president, he did not want to take up the mandate "because there is no possibility of forming a government."
He noted that the correlations do not allow him to form a government. "I responded to my institutional obligation to come and tell you that I will not accept the exploratory mandate, because there is no possibility of forming a government. Therefore, you have the jurisdiction as to what will follow," SYRIZA's leader said.
On her part, Sakellaropoulou noted that "the Constitution sets out what will follow," and expressed the hope that "a government will emerge from the next elections."