The deal requires tax rises and more tough spending cuts in return
for an EU bailout of about €85bn (£61bn, $95bn) - Greece's third in five
years.
Eurozone finance ministers will meet to vote on the plan in Brussels later.
A deal is needed to keep Greece in the eurozone and avert bankruptcy. But it is risky for Greek PM Alexis Tsipras.
More than 40 MPs from his left-wing Syriza party voted against him on Friday.
Reports
in Greece suggest he will seek a vote of confidence in parliament next
week, bringing the prospect of snap elections closer.
The deal received:
- 222 votes for
- 64 against
- 11 abstentions
Mr Tsipras has so far relied on the support of pro-European
opposition parties to pass the controversial measures. Syriza was
elected on an anti-austerity platform.
Makis
Voridis, an MP with the opposition New Democracy, said his party would
not support the PM in a confidence vote, Reuters news agency reported.
Thirty-one
Syriza members voted "No", and 11 abstained - the biggest rebellion
within Mr Tsipras's party so far. The rebels represented almost a third
of Syriza's MPs.
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