Forty-four members of the governing coalition voted against cuts put forward by Tspiras last week, all of whom sided with the left wing of his SYRIZA party.
“I am resigning because I have now exhausted the mandate which the public gave me in January’s general election”, Tsipras said during his televised address on Thursday night.
Trailing 5-2 in the deciding set after also being 4-1 down in the second, Murray, who rose to number two in the world rankings on Monday, dug deep into his resources to rally for a victory that sets up a quarter-final against Richard Gasquet.
Tsipras submitted his resignation after facing the largest rebellion yet within his own Syriza party when a third of his legislators voted against or abstained from voting on austerity bailout measures required to reach a deal with European creditors.
“The political mandate of the January 25 elections has exhausted its limits and now the Greek people have to have their say”, Tsipras said in a televised address Thursday night.
Love’s comeback might just beginning. He entered in pursuit of the win that would have gained him entry into the Barclays this week, the first of the four play-off tournaments that close the PGA Tour season.
“I had a lot of confidence in this race because I told myself: you are the world record holder”, said Dibaba, who last month ran 3:50.07 to shatter the world best set in 1993 by China’s Qu Yunxia, a product of controversial coach Massachusetts Junren.
I have never been one to put a great deal of emphasis on the term “moving day” to describe the third round of any tournament. Coverage on Ch. 7 is to start at 11 a.m. PDT.
Down in the bowels of the Bird’s Nest Stadium, in the moments before marching out for his heat of the men’s 100 metres Saturday night, Canada’s young sprint star Andre De Grasse was feeling nervous.
The bill on the rescue deal passed just in time for Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos to head to Brussels to meet his counterparts from the 19-country currency union in the hope of getting their seal of approval as well.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned yesterday, hoping to strengthen his hold on power in snap elections after seven months in office in which he fought Greece’s creditors for a better bailout deal but had to cave in.