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Athens News Agency: News in English, 11-11-04
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[01] Critical vote of confidence in government due midnight
[01] Critical vote of confidence in government due midnight
AMNA- A critical vote of confidence in embattled Greek prime minister
George Papandreou's PASOK government takes place in parliament at
midnight Friday, after a sizzling three-day debate with growing
disgruntlement within the ruling party and in the aftermath of a
political crisis on Thursday sparked by the premier's announcement
earlier in the week that he intended to put a second EU-IMF bailout loan
agreement ironed out at a marathon eurozone summit on October 26-27 to
a referendum to the Greek people, which eased only after the government
backed off the decision for the referendum.amna
With calls from PASOK MPs and the entire opposition growing for
the formation of either a "national unity" or "national salvation"
government with the other parties or for a transitional government whose
sole purpose will be to ratify the new loan agreement and then head to
elections, coupled by Papandreou's dwindling parliamentary majority,
which has gone from a comfortable 160 seats in the 300-member House
following the 2009 general elections to just 152 today, the outcome of
the vote of confidence was up in the air.
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