ATHENS — Greek voters’ decisive rejection of Europe’s plan to bail out their country cast them closer than ever to doomsday scenarios: A collapse of the banks. An exit from the euro zone. A return to the drachma.

But it is a price that 42-year-old Georgia Imsiritou said she is ready to pay.

“That’s the only logical thing to do,” said Imsiritou, who was among the 61 percent of Greeks who voted Sunday against accepting the austerity measures that European officials have demanded in return for releasing more aid to the debt-ridden country. “We all have to sacrifice something.”

The toll has already been great. Greek banks have been shut down since negotiations over the country’s bailout package collapsed a week ago. Several news reports said they will remain closed until at least Thursday, and it was unclear when — or even if — banks would ever reopen. Long lines formed at ATMs across the city to withdraw the 60 euros (about $67) maximum instituted to help forestall a run on the banks.

The European Central Bank has been providing emergency funding for Greece’s financial institutions, but that money is quickly running out. The ECB’s governing council debated Monday whether to grant a request from Athens to increase its financial lifeline. Without the cash infusion, banks could reportedly run out of money this week.

But for many Greeks, the pain of the past week is just the capstone in a broader economic crisis that has spanned the past five years. A quarter of the work force is unemployed. Pension payments have been slashed. Gross domestic product has tumbled more than 25 percent since 2010.

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Neither side in the fight for Greece’s future knows what will come next. With the economy at a virtual standstill on Monday, roadways in downtown Athens typically heavy with traffic were sparsely traveled. Instead, workers poured into parks and cafes — talking lots, buying little. And as the ramifications of Sunday’s vote begin to unfold, many said they have little left to lose.

“I’m not worried because I don’t have any money,” Imsiritou said as she stood in line at an ATM with her 10-year-old under the blazing Athens sun on Monday.

At a drug store in the heart of the city, pharmacist Mary-ann Vamvaka said she will no longer fill large prescriptions. Instead, she doles out smaller quantities to ensure the store does not run out. Some hospitals are postponing elective surgeries, and many businesses now operate day by day.

Germany’s vice chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, said Monday that the European Union should be ready to provide humanitarian aid to Greece to ensure supplies of medicine and other essential goods.

“The people there need help, and we shouldn’t deny it to them just because we’re not satisfied with the outcome of the referendum,” Gabriel told reporters in Berlin.

Tasos Papanastasiou manages the restaurant Meatmeatmeat on bustling Tsakalof Street in an upscale neighborhood of Athens. He pays the store’s roughly 20 suppliers each day in cash but was unsure how long that could last. That’s why he voted in favor of Europe’s bailout proposal in Sunday’s referendum. Now, there is no clear path for the future — not for his store, and not for the country.

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“No one can tell us what comes next,” he said. “The only solution this time is to sit at the same table. . . I believe and I hope they will find a solution.”

The euro zone’s prime ministers are slated to meet Tuesday, and Greek’s political leaders scrambled on Monday to pull together a new bid for a bailout package ahead of the gathering. Though the proposal reportedly includes a controversial request for debt relief, one of the country’s most polarizing figures will no longer be at the negotiating table. Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis stepped down Monday in an effort to signal that Athens is ready to make a new deal.

Many analysts are not so optimistic. Greece is facing a July 20 deadline to repay loans from the ECB _and it will almost certainly have to default if it cannot reach a new deal with its creditors. A report from Barclays predicted that missing a payment would force the central bank to cut off its financial lifeline to Greek banks, essentially rendering them insolvent. The only option left for Greece would then be to revive its old currency, the drachma.

Georgia Maleme, 65, said she wants Greece to remain a part of Europe — but not under the current regime.

“This is a German Europe,” she said, putting the blame on Chancellor Angela Merkel for Germany’s hard line on austerity requirements for Greece. “Merkel has to change unless she wants Europe to backfire in her hands.”

On Monday morning, Maleme waited in line with half a dozen others to withdraw money at a bank just across the street from Syntagma Square. Thousands of opponents of the European bailout plan had rallied there the night before, and the ATM was plastered with stickers bearing the word “Oxi,” Greek for “no.”

“Things are hard. We know that. But we have to fight for it,” said Maleme, who lives on a government pension. “We have to get out of austerity. We have to get out of this cycle that has no end to it.”


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