Pappas confident deal will receive backing
Greece’s State Minister Nikos Pappas said on Tuesday he was confident parliament would back a deal the crisis-hit country hopes to strike with its lenders even though dissenters have criticised concessions offered by Greece.
“It is clear than any agreement will require the majority which was formed by the elections. I assure you that the deal will be such that it will win the backing of the government majority and of the Greek people,” Pappas told Mega TV.
Dissenters within Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s party have attacked the proposals for hikes to tax and pension charges he made at an EU leaders’s summit on Monday. [Reuters]
