The Council of Europe expressed its doubts about the legitimacy of Sunday’s referendum, Europe’s top human rights institution, warned the vote could fall short of international standards.
The decision to hold a vote at short notice with less than two weeks to debate the issues was “a major problem” and the question was not “very clear” the Council's secretary-general Thorbjorn Jagland told the Associated Press.
THE QUESTION FACING GREECE
After five months of inconclusive negotiations with the country's creditors the Greek government called for a referendum in which Greeks will vote whether to accept their EU/IMF creditors' demands for budget reforms:
"Should the agreement plan submitted by the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund to the June 25 eurogroup and consisting of two parts, which form their single proposal, be accepted? The first document is titled 'Reforms for the completion of the Current Program and Beyond' and the second 'Preliminary Debt Sustainability Analysis'.
"Not approved/NO
"Approved/YES"