Greece’s SYRIZA-led government has won a confidence vote in parliament, ahead of high-stakes talks in Brussels with bailout creditors.
Lawmakers voted 162-137 for prime minister Alexis Tsipras’ government, elected on January 25 on a platform pledging to radically overhaul austerity in the financially struggling country.
Earlier, Tsipras struck a defiant tone, sayingthe country “cannot return to an age of bailouts and suppression,” ahead of critical talks with Athens’s EU creditors.
“There is no return,” he said in a speech to parliament, one day before Greece presents a proposal for a new reform deal at an extraordinary meeting of eurozone foreign ministers in Brussels.
Source: AP, Kathimerini