Lafazanis says 'memorandum consensus' parties will form coalition after elections

"I don't know if this will be done exactly as in Germany or whether it will be a caricature of the cooperation in Germany...the essence is that the parties of the new memorandum consensus will govern together," he said.

He included a SYRIZA-ND coalition among the possible options, saying that these parties, along with Potami and PASOK, shared a common post-election direction in the implementation of the third memorandum. He also dismissed SYRIZA's so-called "parallel programme" as nothing but a "pipe-dream".

Lafazanis disagreed with the view that a memorandum will be necessary even with a return to a national currency, asserting that dropping out of the euro will mean an end to memorandums and austerity.

On whether his party was also in favour of exiting the European Union, Lafazanis criticised the current shape of the EU, calling it a "reactionary formation...saying much that is totalitarian and undemocratic". In spite saying that the current course of the Eurozone and EU "tended to cancel any trace of democracy," Lafazanis said Popular Unity was not set on leaving the EU "but intently raised an issue of radically changing the neoliberal and other policy choices that the EU has adopted."

Lafazanis said that Parliament President Zoi Konstantopoulou was a strong supporter of Popular Unity and that he hoped to soon have "good news" concerning veteran politician Manolis Glezos. He clarified that neither former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis nor MP Alexis Mitropoulos had discussed running on the party's ticket.