US. film director and radical political activist Oliver Stone met Greece’s major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras at Croatia’s Subfersive film festival in Zagreb. The two shared an idolatry of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.
Tsipiras was at the festival to talk about the role of the Left in Europe. His party opposes the austerity measures attached to Greece’s bailouts by international lenders and being imposed by the coalition government led biy Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras.
Stone suggested Tsipras was likely to be Greece’s next prime minister and wished him good luck. “He’s going to need it,” added the director. Indeed, as new polls show him and his party slipping even further behind Samaras.
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