But he asked them to vote no, which they did by a surprisingly wide margin. He evidently thought that this would strengthen his hand; instead, it merely strengthened the position of those Germans convinced that the time had come to let Greece drop out of the euro.
如果齐普拉斯从常理出发，合乎逻辑的做法是要求希腊人民投赞成票。但他要求希腊人民投反对票，并出人意料地获得了绝大多数人的顺从。他显然认为这将加强他的立场；相反，这仅仅加强了那些认为是时候让希腊退出欧元区的德国人的立场。