Greece PM likely to call confidence vote after bailout deal
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is likely to call a confidence vote, following Athens’ recent controversial approval of a bailout deal with eurozone countries.
Greek Energy and Environment Minister Panos Skourletis said on Monday that the reason behind such a move by Tsipras is quite "self-evident" amid a political upheaval that has rocked the country’s ruling Syriza party following the disputed bailout deal.
Skourletis also noted that the government may resort to early elections in a bid to handle the political crisis in the debt-ridden country.
Meanwhile, reports said that Greek socialist PASOK party has vowed to withdraw its support for the country’s leftist government in case of a new confidence vote.
The developments came three days after Greek lawmakers, many of them from the opposition parties, approved an 85-billion-euro rescue package, the third of its kind, in an attempt to prevent the country from defaulting on its huge debts.
During the Friday session, a majority of 222 lawmakers approved the consequential deal while 64 voted against and 11 abstained.
The decision to renew the bailout program garnered harsh criticism within the ruling party and dozens of Syriza MPs voted against the deal.
Greece received two bailouts in 2010 and 2012 worth a total of EUR 240 billion (USD 272 billion) from its troika of international lenders - the European Central Bank (ECB), the European Commission, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - following economic crisis in 2009.
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