The elections mean that it is unlikely that the Troika of Greece’s international creditors from the European Commission (EC), European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) would visit Greece until March.
Sources of Protothema.gr state that Greece’s creditors are being pressured to complete the Greek review due to Finnish elections on April 19. The Finnish government held a hard line against the first support program calling for Greece to provide collateral as had been the case with Finland when it had been forced to undergo a similar program. After all, Finnish Olli Rehn had been the European Economic and Monetary Affairs commissioner who had handled the debt crisis in Greece.
Greece’s lenders are reluctant to open a new front with Athens and troika so as not to disrupt the Finnish pre-election period when it is in its crescendo.
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