Pavlopoulos had told Tsipras ‘no’ vote was not a mandate for Grexit, threatened to resign

Greece’s former president, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, had privately warned then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras in 2015 that he would not support a Greek exit from the eurozone during the country’s debt crisis, calling the referendum on the third bailout “the most difficult week” of the post-dictatorship era.