Greece’s Syriza Spars Over Bailout Strategy as Europe Spurns New Offer

Tsipras swings from compromise to confrontation; first polls on referendum show conflicting results

By

Marcus Walker and

Nektaria Stamouli

Updated July 1, 2015 10:01 p.m. ET

ATHENS—Greek leader Alexis Tsipras pursued both compromise and confrontation with his country’s creditors on Wednesday while his government’s rival factions fought over how, and whether, to keep Greece in the euro.
The embattled prime minister lambasted Greece’s lenders—the German-led eurozone and the International Monetary Fund—in a televised speech after Europe rejected another last-ditch bailout proposal from Athens as too little, too late. He called on Greeks to vote “no” on Sunday in a referendum on creditors’...

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