It didn’t come to that. Tsipras and the mainstream of Syriza whipped the necessary measures through parliament. The left wing split from Syriza, only to be humiliated in the September general election, which vindicated Tsipras’s leadership, returning him with a virtually unchanged majority and the new loan deal in place. A majority of Greeks, it turned out, wanted eurozone membership, even at the price of continued troika oversight.
