Another MP fled the leftist-rightist Greek government coalition on Wednesday, as a deputy from the small right-wing Independent Greeks’ (AN.EL) party, elected in Thessaloniki, announced his departure from the latter.
By all accounts, 152 to 153 MPs (out of a total of 300) in Parliament continue to back the Tsipras government.
MP Giorgos Lazaridis announced his resignation from AN.EL’s Parliament group due to his opposition to a recent agreement between Athens and Skopje over the fYRoM “name issue”.
In a subsequent reaction, the AN.EL party angrily called for Lazaridis to turn his resign from Parliament in order to turn over the seat.
Meanwhile, in an another volley fired over the party’s “bow” on Tuesday, now independent MP Dimitris Kammenos charged that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Panos Kammenos, the defense minister and president of the AN.EL party, have agreed to dissolve the government and call snap election before any ratification of the Prespes Agreement comes before Parliament.
Panos Kammenos expelled the other Kammenos, Dimitris, from the small party when the latter voted in favor of a no confidence vote against the government.
