(5 Jul 2015) The question in Sunday's crucial referendum in Greece was unclear for many voters, leaving them confused about what's at stake.
Much of the ambiguity arises from the complicated question on the ballot paper:
"Must the agreement plan be accepted which was submitted by the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund to the Eurogroup of 25 June, 2015, and is comprised of two parts which make up their joint proposal? The first document is titled 'reforms for the completion of the current program and beyond' and the second 'Preliminary debt sustainability analysis.'"
Voters were asked to check one of two boxes: "not approved/no" and - below it - "approved/yes."
Associate Professor of Political Sciences in the University of Athens, Dimitris Sotiropoulos, said the phrasing was ambiguous.
He stressed that people were asked to "vote first on a list of proposals, which were prior to the last list of proposals submitted by the European Union to Greece."
Greeks voted on Sunday whether to accept demands by international creditors for more austerity measures in return for bailout loans.
But one voter, architect Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos, said the referendum was really about whether or not Greeks wanted to stay in the European Union.
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