The Greek parliament gave the green light last night to the proposed agreement submitted to the creditors of the country by the government of Alexis Tsipras, who however recorded the defection of several members of his party.
The Prime Minister, who had made the vote a choice of “high national responsibility”, collected 251 positive votes out of 300 MPs to go this Saturday negotiate with the country’s creditors (EU, ECB, IMF) on the basis of the proposal that he put on the table Thursday night
Among the eight voters are three personalities of his majority. The Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis and the Minister for social insurance funds Dimitris Stratoulis, of ‘Eurosceptic wing Syriza and Parliament Speaker Zoe Konstantopoulou third character of the state.
Several Syriza MPs were also absent for the vote, including former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, so that the text was adopted with the votes of the opposition socialists and conservatives in particular, since the government majority has 149 deputies and 13 deputies Syriza the small right-wing sovereignist Anel, the latter having voted for the proposed agreement.
Political commentators believe that these defections from the majority could lead to political changes, perhaps in the form of a cabinet reshuffle.
Alexis Tsipras, while defending the package of measures proposed by the government, had admitted, in front of parliament, they were “difficult” and away from the election promises of the radical left. He felt, however, have a “clear mandate” to negotiate with the international creditors of the country after obtaining the approval of Parliament. “The priority now is to have a positive outcome to the negotiations,” said Alexis Tsipras stressing that “the rest” would come after.
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