Greece leaders reject call to miss IMF payment

Greece will continue paying its debts after its ruling Radical Left Coalition narrowly rejected a call by party hardliners to miss its next International Monetary Fund loan instalment.

Syriza’s central committee rejected the proposal by far-left hardliners 95-75, with one blank vote. It also rejected calls to nationalise banks and hold a referendum that would give voters the power to reject any deal in Brussels with the EU and IMF over relief in exchange for more fiscal reforms.