Greece : Government survives vote; protesters chant insults

[stockholmer]

This is not a programme to salvage the economy, it's a programme for pillage before bankruptcy" Alexis Tsipras, head of the small opposition Left Coalition.



http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/8/43543


Greece's embattled government on Wednesday survived a confidence vote crucial to avoiding a sovereign default, as thousands of protesters chanted insults outside parliament.

The assembly voted confidence in the government, reshuffled by Prime Minister George Papandreou to stiffen resolve behind a painful new austerity programme, by 155 votes to 143 with two abstentions. All Papandreou's Socialist Party deputies voted solidly with the government.


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Protesters besieged parliament in Syntagma square, chanting slogans against the politicians, shining hundreds of green laser lights at the building and into the eyes of riot police outside and pushing their hands forward in a traditional insult.

Papandreou's government must rapidly pass two more tests -- enacting the austerity plan and the laws needed to implement it -- to win a new bailout to avert the euro zone's first sovereign default and possible global economic disaster. The vote follows a European ultimatum requiring the debt-choked Mediterranean state to implement a new five-year package of deeply unpopular reforms in two weeks or miss out on a 12-billion euro aid tranche and plunge into bankruptcy.

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IMHO, a possible civil war is definitely looming

[blindpig]

1. Papandreou is toast.

He is a pimp for the international bankers and will probably not survive another vote of confidence.

The capitalist insist upon radicalizing the populace with their actions and will reap the results.

We should take notes.