Greece’s political turmoil has raised uncertainty over how the government will implement the bailout deal, which demands profound economic reform and tough austerity policies, without a workable majority.
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Spanish, Estonian and Austrian MPs are voting today, as Greece faces Euro 3.2 billion payment to the European Central Bank on August 20.
At the end of last year, Germany’s Fraport and its Greek partner Copelouzos were named the preferred bidder consortium to operate the airports, but the transaction stalled after the left-wing government of Alexis Tsipras took power in January. “The bailout cannot be the programme of Syriza, it falls outside its values, these are incompatible notions”.
But Tsipras insisted the bailout was in Greece’s best interests, saying: “The agreement will advance Greece by making its financial system more stable, starting right now”.
“I remain solidly of the perspective that Greece’s obligation has gotten to be unsustainable and that Greece can’t restore obligation manageability exclusively through activities all alone”, she said in an announcement.
The party held responsible Tsipras and Panos Kammenos, who exactly prospects the small percentage mate in the group federal, … Tsipras may decide against holding a vote if the government needs to take more actions to secure aid disbursement.
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.
On Friday, support for the government from within its own coalition parties fell below 120 votes, the minimum needed to survive a confidence vote if some others abstain. It is likely, therefore, that rebellious legislators from the hardline Left Platform led by the former energy minister, Panagiotis Lafazanis, would soon split with Mr Tsipras’s pragmatic faction and set up a new anti-austerity party committed to readopting the drachma currency.
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.
German approval of the bailout is not in doubt because of the support of parties like the Social Democrats and Greens.
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Skourletis said that if Syriza opts for snap polls, the party would aim for an absolute majority.
