Tsipras’s allegations “were an attempt to solidify party support in the face of a convenient enemy for political gains,” said George Pagoulatos, a professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business. The premier’s exchanges with Lagarde over the weekend “were also forward-looking, in the sense of preemptively scapegoating the IMF for a potential deadlock in the program review talks,” Pagoulatos said in an interview.
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