2015 Greek bailout referendum on Sunday July 05,2015

 

2015 Greek bailout referendum on Sunday July 05,2015

A Referendum to decide whether or not Greece is to accept the bailout conditions proposed jointly by the European Commission(EC), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank (ECB) on June 25,2015, is due to take place on July 05,2015

The referendum was announced by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in the early morning of June 27,2015, and ratified the following day by the Parliament and the Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos

Voters will be asked whether they approve of the proposal made to Greece by the EU, the IMF and the ECB 

The question will contain two choices stated as "Those citizens that reject the proposal of the three institutions vote 'Not approved/No'" and "Those citizens that agree with the proposal of the three institutions vote 'Approved/Yes'"

There are 9,855,029 people on the Greek electoral register. Voters will be able to cast their ballots on Sunday in 19,159 polling stations across Greece

To encourage people to vote, there will be discounts on train and bus tickets as well as domestic flights. 

The last referendum held in Greece took place 41 years ago, in 1974, when voters abolished the monarchy. 

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called on Greeks to vote No in Sunday's referendum  

  

Electoral workers prepare ballot boxes in a warehouse in Thessaloniki, Greece, on July 2, 2015, ahead of Sunday's economic referendum.

Municipal workers carry ballot boxes into a warehouse in Athens, Greece, on July 2, 2015, in preparation for the upcoming referendum.

Ballot boxes for the upcoming referendum are stored in a warehouse in Athens, Greece, on July 2, 2015.

Referendum officials check the election material at an Athens school which will be used as a polling station

A polling station official unpacks the ballots on the eve of the Greek referendum

How many people can vote? 9.9 million 

How old do you have to be to vote? 18 

When did voting open? 7am local time (05:00 BST)

When does voting close? 7pm local time (17:00 BST)

When will we get the result? The first official projection of the result is expected at 9pm local time (19:00 BST) 

Voters look up their names on a list outside a polling station

Greeks vote on country's financial future - with result still too close to call as 'Yes' and 'No' camps neck-and-neck with many people still undecided

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras votes

 

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras talking to the media after voting

 Greece's Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis votes

 

 

 

'I'll Vote No With Both Hands:' An 85-Year-Old's Story Of Struggle In Greece

Penelope Tyraki is 85 years old. She has 10 children and 17 grandchildren. She survived the Nazis.

This is how she remembers it: Early one morning, 75 years ago, German soldiers from Hitler's army banged on her door in Koxare, a small town on the island of Crete. Together with her father -- an Orthodox priest -- and her mother and brothers, she was hauled out of the house in her pajamas. They were thrust into the town's small church, where many of their neighbors were already waiting in similar conditions. After barring the gates, the soldiers locked them in and wired the building with explosives. They planned to blow it up with all the townspeople inside.

"We were terrified, even despite the fact that, as children, we didn't quite understand what was going on," she said. "At the last moment, the leader of the German soldiers got a phone call and that seems to have saved our lives. There weren't enough young men inside the church. We were just a few people. It wasn't worth wasting explosives on a bunch of old men, women and children. They took us out and led us to an elevated spot in town where they forced us to watch while they blew up each one of our homes. It was awful. Three days later, we came back to town, destroyed, and my parents and brothers picked up the charred remains of what had been our home, a beautiful home. I was left without a school and, even worse, without a future, without the possibility of an education."

"Why do they now want to do the same thing to my children and grandchildren? Justice, I only ask for justice," she says. "Write this down, please: Help us."

 Penelope Tyraki(85)will vote oxi --'no'-- to the austerity measures demanded by Brussels. "It's not yes or no to the euro, we know that," she says. "But I will vote 'no' to those measures because if we have to leave the euro, I am aware that two or three very hard years await us. But we are used to that, and afterwards we'll have our own new politicians to find our way