Greek opposition party refuses to back PM in any confidence vote
“We welcome the successful vote in the Greek Parliament this morning”, said German Foreign Ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer, whose country has been the single largest contributor to Greece’s previous two bailouts and is the country’s harshest critic.
He also alluded to the possibility of early elections should Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras lose such a vote. “To implement such a serious programme with painful measures, you can not do that without a popular mandate”.
The party held responsible Tsipras and Panos Kammenos, who exactly prospects the small percentage mate in the group federal, … Tsipras had to rely on opposition support to get the bailout deal through parliament, and another minister argued that elections would be a way of achieving political stability.
The about-face has angered an increasing number of Syriza lawmakers, including prominent members such as former ministers of finance Yanis Varoufakis, and energy Panagiotis Lafazanis. Lafazanis now leads Syriza members who oppose the conditions that Tsipras had to accept in return for the 86 billion euros ($95 billion) in loans. But Skourletis raised the possibility of early polls should Tsipras fail in a confidence vote.
Last week Lafazanis took a step toward breaking away from Syriza, a coalition of the radical left, by calling for a new anti-bailout movement.
The chances that the hard left wing will relent and rally behind Tsipras in a confidence vote look slim.
The decision to renew the bailout program garnered harsh criticism within the ruling party and dozens of Syriza MPs voted against the deal.
A government spokesperson in Athens said Greece now awaits what she called “a clean solution” to the intractable 320 billion euro debt that has been the root cause of the five-year economic crisis.
PASOK overview that is actually although it had guaranteed the federal government over bailout with regard to keeping safe Greece from bankruptcy, that in fact help won’t lengthen to any confidence vote in the approaching several weeks.
A senior law-maker, Makis Voridis, from the Opposition New Democracy party said his party would not vote in favour of the government, raising the odds that Mr Tsipras’s coalition could be toppled.
After six months of fraught negotiations, and with capital controls since June to avert a bank collapse, Tsipras on July 13 had to sign up to fresh cuts to keep the country in the eurozone.
Tsipras’s standing has raised doubts about how much the opposition parties may want to force new elections.