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The longer this situation that degrades parliamentary institutions and democracy persists, the greater the impediments to the country’s efforts to finally exit the tunnel of uncertainty.

According to Mitsotakis, the agreement was that Tsipras would keep his parliamentary majority and Kammenos would not have to approve the Prespa Agreement

Moscow recently threatened to veto the Prespa Agreement at the UN, though Security Council approval is not required for the accord to take effect.

Amidst skirmishes between some of the approximately 2,000 protestors and the large riot police force, one woman was injured by a flare and another suffered back burns.

Noting the breakdown of the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks coalition and the upcoming confidence vote, the report refers to the subsequent 1.3 percent drop on the Athens Stock Exchange.

Kammenos is now trying to lure independent MPs who have left or have been expelled from other parties,

Kammenos has been replaced by Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis, until now Greece’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

With time impasses became apparent as did the fundamental differences between the two unsuited ruling coalition partners.

Merkel conceded that tax cuts are in order but opposed these and any benefits being decided at the expense of the very high (3.5 percent of GDP) primary surplus target

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis explained why his party will vote down the Greece-FYROM Prespa Agreement when it is tabled in the Greek Parliament for ratification to visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who fervently supports the agreement and expressed gratitude to PM Alexis Tsipras and FYROM PM Zoran Zaev for concluding it. In a written […]

The agreement comes into effect upon ratification by the Greek Parliament, which is expected within the month.

Like other European leaders, the German Chancellor fervently desires a resolution of the longstanding issue with Skopje.

'The Greeks had a difficult time over the last years and I am especially pleased that Greece transcended the problems,' said Merkel

It is crucial that the PM ruled out the prospect of heading a minority government [supported ad hoc by MPs from other parties].

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras revealed he will seek a parliamentary vote of confidence if Defence Minister Panos Kammenos withdraws his trust.

Mitsotakis declared that Tsipras should either seek a vote of confidence in parliament or call elections immediately.

Having served the purposes of the prime minister, the leader of the Independent Greeks, Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, is being discarded and pushed aside.

The report quoted Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos as saying that these primary surplus figures cannot continue for long without harming the economy.

A country cannot be governed with MPs switching parties or abandoning their own and with promises to wandering MPs.

Maniadakis has already been charged with bribe-taking based on recent testimony of another protected witness (who remains in the programme).