May 29, 2018. Carlo Cottarelli meets Italy's President Sergio Mattarella at Quirinale palace. Usq/Ropi/Zuma Press/Press Association. All rights reserved.Aldo Cazzullo, Corriere Della Sera (AC): Let us start from the beginning? Why did you decide to resign after OXI’s victory in the Greek referendum?
Yanis Varoufakis (YV): Because that very night, when I spoke to Prime Minister Tsipras, he declared his readiness to turn the NO, our people’s majestic 62% OXI vote, into a YES. Staying would have meant endorsing the overthrowing of a people by its… government.
AC: Did you know or did you expect that Tsipras would accept an even harder austerity plan than the one rejected by the Greek people?
