Bill passed, SYRIZA suffers defeat and thus by its own lawmakers. With 222 YES votes the Greek Parliament approved the 3. bailout bill on Friday morning. 64 MPs voted NO and 11 Abstained. With 42 SYRIZA MPs to have voted NO or “Present”, the the major coalition government partner suffered in fact a defeat, because it passed the bill with the support of the opposition and not the support of all its 149 lawmakers. It is the third voting in Parliament, where SYRIZA MPs go ‘rebellious’ and refuse to support Prime Minister Tsipras’ pro-creditors bills.
YES: SYRIZA, New Democracy, PASOK, To Potami
NO: SYRIZA, KKE, Golden Dawn
The voting today showed that SYRIZA has lost the so-called “δεδηλωμένη”, the declared [confidence of Parliament], according to which a Prime Minister has to have the support of at least 120 lawmakers (2/5 of the 300 MPs).
The voting result incites political developments. Citing government sources, Greek media report that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will seek a vote of confidence in the Parliament after August 20th, when the 3. bailout agreement is expected to have been sealed between Greece and the creditors.
Should Tsipras lose the confidence voting, he will have to take the country to snap elections.
Tsipras’ U-turn on July 13th, when he agreed with creditors to accept their bailout demands triggered a ‘fight’ within the left-wing party with opponents accusing him of having ‘betrayed’ the cause, that is: reject loan agreements and promote social policies.
Tsipras’ main challenger within SYRIZA is the Left Platform of former Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis. On Thursday, Lafazanis and 11 SYRIZA party members declared that they plan to establish a new political body.
Despite the permanent disagreement between Tsipras and the Left Plaform that has mor ethan 30 MPs in the Parliament, neither did Tsipras expel the SYRIZA ‘rebels’, nor did they resign from the party. So far, the Left Plaform and other SYRIZA MPs opposing Tsipras’ bailout policies had declared that they would not return their seats to SYRIZA if resigned or expelled.
For Tsipras’ the political calculation is simple: expel or resign of several dozens MPs would cause the government to lose the majority in the Parliament and bring down the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition.
The bailout voting by roll call followed heated debate that lasted all through the night.
Some MPs were unable to resist the call of Morpheus…
Yawning Finance Minister Tsakalotos while defending the bailout bill.
Later today, the Eurogroup finance ministers will convene to approve the Greek deal. Germany seems to still have some objections. Business as usual…
Great photos man !
Maybe the goal at this point is to SYRIZA-ANEL coalition.
They Failed !
Fait accompli will be the lament.
Q:
Do you think that Tsipras will be relieved to step down ?
Did it take long enough to get to where they had planned ?
For credibility purposes of course.
Or should they have strung it out a bit longer ?
So as to make it look real.
Never the less, the seeds of discontent have been sown & the show must go on.
After all –
This Is The Greatest Show On Earth.
And It’s Show Time.
Will The Next Players
“COME ON DOWN”
It’s indeed a show of bastardokratia as democratic would be to have vote of confidence and snap-elections before the undemocratic votes for measures
In reading other news & it says –
“After Greeces No Vote”
Greek banks have been closed for a week & the financial system is on the verge of collapse:
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At no time is the Grek financial system going to collapse.
All the Greek government needs to do is reinstate the old currency & life goes on.
I do hope that the Greek political Arena understandes this reality.
You do not justthrow up you hands & let thing go wrong.
They arn’t that stupid to not understand, are they ?
For the first time the ruling few in Germany seem to be very satisfied with the performance of Tsipras “who finally understood the seriousness of the situation and was ready to negociate in a business like manner.” Most interesting is a comment the CEO of SIEMENS, Joe Kaeser, made in the “Passauer Neue Presse” last Saturday. He said “to be very impressed” by what Merkel and Schäuble had achieved. For him the “Greek deal” is the first step in the making of a “Transfer-Union” (Transfer-Union) which becomes a must for everyone “who claims to be willing to create a politically and economically united Europe with one currency” (…wenn man den Anspruch hat, ein wirtschaftspolitisches Europa mit gemeinsamer Währung zu formen.) In this way Europe could counterbalance the American and Asian economical “blocks”. To keep an uncompeditive country like Greece in such a Europe has to be seen as an extraordinary achievement. As Germany will profit most, it has to be ready to pay the prize.
Rumours are going that the Greek government was threatening with more intense investigations into bribes by Siemens, MAN, Lidl, aso
Mr. Kaese makes a big mistake thinking that they will get postponed forever
Another story is the participation of the IMF. Germany wanted that and Greece not, so the deal was that Greece will stop opposing against it but now it turns out totally different, just like Germany’s last exit but Greece accepted the IMF and it’s not Greece’s fault if the IMF says no but Germany’s.