In the face of worldwide pressure, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is proposing critical national reforms.
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MPs in Athens agreed to accept strict new austerity measures on Saturday (October 17) in return for a two-billion-euro installment from Greece’s global lenders.
The protesters from communist-affiliated party PAME hung out a huge banner reading: “We won’t become slaves of the 21st century”.
Under the deal Greece struck with its worldwide creditors, which foresees up to €86 billion… Tsipras retorted that the reforms were “not new”.
A party revolt against the third bailout in August triggered the elections just eight months after SYRIZA was first elected in office.
“There are no new measures here”.
Acknowledging that extra ache awaits Greek society after six years of steep recession earlier than the state of affairs improves, the federal government has pledged to aim to stability the new losses accumulating from the bailout measures with a parallel programme that may include insurance policies to help probably the most weak social teams.
“We have to vote the prior actions…to conclude banks’ recapitalisation now, to lift capital controls and to kick-start the economy”, Education Minister Nikos Filis told ANT1 television.
The measures come ahead of the first review of the country’s new global bailout later this month.
Mr Tsipras has so far faced little dissent from his party or right-wing coalition partners during a parliamentary debate on the bill that started at committee level on Tuesday.
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Out of 48 necessary reforms, around a dozen are included in legislation voted on Friday, he said.
