Greece’s radical left Syriza party can win re-election with an outright majority, a senior member said, governing without support from mainstream forces which also back the country’s new international bailout.

Bailout deal sees Syriza fracture and a confidence vote looming

The Greek government has defended its new bailout programme in tumultuous parliamentary sessions, as it faced a rebellion in the governing Syriza party ahead of a vote on the deal.

Greece’s radical government emerged bloodied but alive from a key vote in parliament, which overwhelmingly approved new creditor-demanded reforms despite a revolt among hardliners in the main ruling party Syriza.

Greek MPs have voted overwhelmingly to approve a harsh austerity bill demanded by bailout creditors, despite significant dissent from members of prime minister Alexis Tsipras’ left-wing party.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has claimed the Greek coalition government party Syriza made a “disastrous political decision” when it asked the public to give its view of the EU debt deal.

An MEP with the Syriza party in Greece has claimed the measures included in an agreement with Eurozone leaders are "not sustainable" and will provoke "more recession and more poverty".

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Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has called on his fractious Syriza party to rally behind the government as time runs critically short to unlock funding from international lenders and avert a debt default.

Greece is ready to accept a “viable and long-lasting” deal with lenders but not on “humiliating terms”, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has told his ruling Syriza party.

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Syriza wants to break the rules of a political association that it cannot afford to leave, writes Gerard Howlin

Greece’s prime minister has been briefing his party’s lawmakers on pledges made to European creditors to win a four-month extension of the country’s bailout, amid simmering discontent with what some see as a capitulation.

For a relatively small country that has been totally mismanaged from an economic and financial perspective for decades, the eyes of the world are on Greece at the moment, writes Jim Power.