EU aid, tomorrow retest Parliamentary Tsipras – ANSA.it

(ANSA) – BRUSSELS, July 21 – Continue the Via Crucis of Athens in the hope of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel by 20 August, with the landing to the aid program ESM. Tomorrow there will be a new, difficult vote for the government Tsipras, in bleeding of deputies and the test of the square, on the second package of measures needed to immediately start negotiations with the former Troika. And although it is still slipped cutting the baby pensions, public officials are up in arms, while taking their toll increases in VAT on food and transport, with + 10% for the ferries. The adoption of European rules on the resolution of failing banks, which protect deposits up to 100 thousand euro but they charge before losses to individuals and only as a last resort to the state and therefore taxpayers. Then a revision of the Code of Civil Procedure, to speed up processes and cut costs for citizens and businesses. These measures, agreed with EU, ECB and IMF, on the plate of greek parliament tomorrow. The former have already received a positive evaluation by the ECB, albeit with reservations because some measures require the prior consent of the Ministry of Finance, undermining the independence of the Bank of Greece. Slip again, however, the baby pensions, whose discouragement should have been adopted as early as last Wednesday with the first package of measures. With the consent of the institutions, however, he said the government spokesman Olga Gerovassili, these have been postponed “until later.” And in the new package, there will not even tax increases for farmers. The objective of the executive, said his spokesman, is to start “immediately the negotiations with EU, ECB and IMF” after the vote tomorrow night, with the objective that are terminated by agreement within the “20 August to more later “. Athens now serves an outlay for new payment to the ECB by 3.2 billion with expiry on 20 August. Pm in the Vouli then triggered a new count, with the hope that the numbers are not dwindling even more to Syriza. The coalition of Tsipras, with the release of the more radical by the government and the heavy criticism of the former Minister Yanis Varoufakis, lost a fifth of its Members, from an absolute majority of 162 seats out of 300 to 123. New Democracy , PASOK and To Potami have given their support, but only time to find agreement on a new aid program.

The persistent rumors of new elections, however, were denied by Gerovassili, that “it would not be useful for the moment “given that the government should focus on new negotiations with the former Troika. A look at the latest polls, however, Tsipras, despite the defeat in Brussels, is the politician most widely popular, with the support of 60% of Greeks. Tomorrow, however, will have to go back from the trial of the square: the union of public servants ADEDY has already organized a demonstration to coincide with the vote, while the forces of riot police are preparing for new clashes in Syntagma square. (ANSA).