El griego que le dice no a Merkel

37-Year-old is the youngest politician of Greece.

The Syriza party, left, broke in the second position of the Greek electoral map. And it did so in the hand of a 37-year-old girl, Alexis Tsipras, whom many fans consider a hero - by their frontal opposition austerity policies--and his detractors see as a threat to the political stability of the country.

Tsipras is the youngest leader of a political party of Greece. Polls placed his party, Syriza, which is opposed to the austerity pact reached between the Greek Government and the European Union, as a favorite for the elections on 17 June.

Many see a way out of the crisis against the cuts and austerity policies.

For others, it is only another populist politician.

Until the last elections, Greek politics had been practically a thing of two parties, the Social Democrats of PASOK and the center-right new democracy.

The campaign of Syriza for the elections of May 6 - that ended up with a fragmented result which finally embarked on the country to new elections unable to form Government - catapulted the group to an unexpected second place.

The Greek politician is now on tour in Europe to seek support for his agenda against the cuts and austerity.

But who is Alexis Tsipras?

"It became the symbol of a new generation that intetaba open step in a political scene occupied by elderly people"

Matthew Tsimitakes, former partner of student struggle

Alexis Tsipras was born in Athens three days after the fall of the military junta Greek, in 1974. His early years were more dominated by football than politics, although his first opportunity to test their skills in this field is introduced relatively early.

When a new right-wing government threatened to implement unpopular education reform in 1991, students responded by taking the schools.

Alexis, then 17 years old, led the occupation of your secondary school. He and his companions lived, ate and slept in their classrooms for several months.

Matthew Tsimitakis, who was studying in another Athenian school, recalls an encounter with the young Alexis in the most high moments of the student action.

"Seemed very intelligent, calm, passionate, but also aware (...)" He was well informed about what was happening in the educational system. "He was prepared to negotiate with the Minister, and think it was the only one who could handle the press," he said.

They were rough days for the young Alexis, who soon proved the taste of political success, that the student occupation won concessions from the Government.

Also met women that planned to spend the rest of his life, then the student activist Betty Baziana.

"We do not know what such a good negotiator is and how much can maintain its position in a European Forum, where will be discussing with (the German Chancellor) Angela Merkel, (French President) Francois Holland and the European Central Bank"

Vassilis Monastiriotis, expert in Greek politics of the LSE

To complete high school, took a course to study civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, but the policy followed by calling voices.

He soon aprestó to create a coalition of left-wing groups and student environmental organizations. Born Syriza, which participated in the municipal elections of 2006 in Athens and won an impressive third place.

"He toured conjunction in Athens and tried to make direct contact with potential voters." "As in the old days, when people knew the politicians by name", said Elpida Ziouva, a civil servant who worked in the House of the city.

For the past two years has repeatedly condemned the Government's support for the proposed financial recovery plan by the so called "troika" comprising the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

His relaxed style also captures headlines. Tsipras crosses Athens on a motorcycle, rather than the limousines used by other Greek politicians, and prefers the shirts with the neck desabotonadas on the suit and tie.

He obviously enjoys playing with the conventions. The student exactivista Matthew Tsimitakes recalls a party a few years ago to commemorate the end of the rule of the junta.

"Alexis decided to go with a simple suit, no tie, and brought to the party a young black woman, an African immigrant, which was considered scandalous for a conservative Greece", points out.

"Became the symbol of a new generation that intetaba open step in a political scene occupied by elderly," he adds.

But that doesn't mean you don't have critics.

Some suggest that it has not fully explained how combine their opposition to austerity plans with its support for the euro and the continuity of Greece within the European Union.

Miranda Xafa, an economist and prominent member of the Drassi party, prolibre market, argues that his "message is populist".

So some criticize for allegedly having incited to violence.

Also it has accused him of support manifetaciones antiausteridad of a violent nature, which denies.

"It has been persistent in saying that people have the right to revolt is if unjust austerity measures are imposed", said Vassilis Monastiriotis, an expert in Greek politics from the London School of Economics in England.

"Not retracted, while many criticized him for his position, that encouraged violence in the streets of Athens", he adds.

Such criticism may explain why, when it was their turn to form a coalition to govern Greece, failed its mission.

But some suggest that he could win the election, and guarantee a seat at the table of negotiations in Europe.

"We do not know what such a good negotiator is and how much can maintain its position in a European Forum, where will be discussing with (the German Chancellor) Angela Merkel, (French President) Francois Holland and the European Central Bank", adiverte Monastiriotis.

Meanwhile, his followers, as his old friend Yiannis bourgeois, insists that the charismatic Alexis Tsipras is a different kind of leader:

"The Greek people had had enough of inadequate negotiators." You already saw the results: our country is collapsing. "Try something new", he said.

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