I respect that governments are bound by their voters’ will. That will might well differ between jurisdictions in general, and between creditors and debtors in particular. At the same time, I see a risk that governments are making it too easy for themselves when they claim that they cannot make any further concessions at international level because of domestic political pressures.
Survey data shows that an unquestioning belief in opinion polls is not necessarily in the longterm interest of voters. For instance, support for the euro was very low in the Baltic countries prior to the changeover, but it is steadily increasing. In Lithuania net support has increased by 23 percentage points in just one year.