The Greek Parliament has given in the night from Friday to Saturday the green light 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, according to the count of the meeting. The Prime Minister, who had made the vote a choice of “high national responsibility”, collected 251 positive votes out of 300 MPs to go negotiate Saturday with the country’s creditors (EU, ECB, IMF) on the basis of the proposal he had put on the table Thursday night. But he recorded defections ten members of his radical leftist party Syriza who abstained or, for two of them, voted against the agreed plan.
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Of the eight voters are three personalities of his majority: the Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis and the Minister for social insurance funds Dimitris Stratoulis , the 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 comprises 149 MPs Syriza and 13 deputies from the small right-wing sovereignist Anel, the latter having voted for the proposed agreement.
Political commentators believe that Saturday morning that these defections within 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.
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