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No formal count was taken at this meeting, but according to Stathis Kouvelakis, 30 MPs were out of the room when the vote was taken and 40 abstained or voted against. If this is right, then a third of those present voted against. He recounts that most speakers - some 80 MPs - criticised the deal, in an emotional and turbulent meeting that went on for 12 hours. Tsipras would be smart not to bring this to a parliamentary vote. The centrist opposition want it to be voted on because they want to split Syriza and pass the deal. The KKE want it to be voted on because they want to split Syriza and take their place as the dominant left party. It was shrewd and characteristic of Tsipras’s leadership style to take an informal vote on this. Because he could have just forced it through and gone ahead with a parliamentary vote without listening to anyone, which would possibly have split Syriza in a big way. But the scale of dissent, the difficulties it creates for the agreement, and the clear rejection of the ‘famous victory’ line that Tsipras peddled, has saved Syriza’s honour. The Left Platform have been shown to be wholly correct in their approach, while the cheerleaders and the told-you-so sectarians now look a bit silly. > On 27 Feb 2015, at 06:15, Dayne Goodwin via Marxism > <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > > > After facing down SYRIZA MPs, Greek PM mulls bringing deal to Parliament > > Kathimerini, Athens > Feb. 26, 2015 > > > Tsipras’s hesitancy comes after a meeting of SYRIZA’s parliamentary > group on Wednesday that lasted more than 11 hours. During the debate > about Greece’s new agreement with its lenders, a number of MPs > expressed disagreement with the deal. At Tsipras’s insistence, a vote > was held at the end of the meeting and some 30 of the party’s 149 > lawmakers either voted against the agreement or failed to vote for it. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
