Our government is making every possible effort right now to have a positive deal, which will respect our program, which will respect the main principle of our program since we took power, which is to put a brake on wage and pension cuts. Deputy Labour Minister Dimitris Stratoulis More Quotes by Deputy Labour Minister Dimitris Stratoulis More Quotes From Deputy Labour Minister Dimitris Stratoulis I repeat: The deal will either be compatible with the basic lines of Syriza's election manifesto, or there will be no deal, the prime minister is negotiating with this in mind. Deputy Labour Minister Dimitris Stratoulis industrials So far the lenders have not backed down mainly because if they had backed down or do back down, they would accept that the bailout policies destroyed Greece and its people, we are not afraid of blackmail, and our priority is the public interest. Deputy Labour Minister Dimitris Stratoulis industrials