Samaras’ government seats weakens as coalition partner DIMAR expells two MPs

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics

Junior coalition government partner Democratic Left (DIMAR) expelled Monday MPs Odyseas Voudouris and Paris Moutsinas because “they have been permanently disagreeing with the official positions of the party” DIMAR said in a statement.
Last week, Voudouris said in an interview, that he would call on a party congress where he would put on the agenda DIMAR’s participation in Samaras’ coalition government. Furthermore he had announced that he would vote in favor of the proposal to be posed by main opposition party, left-wing SYRIZA, asking that coalition partner and leader of PASOK, Evangelos Venizelos, should be referred to parliamentary committee investigating changes on the Lagarde list.
With this move, the number of DIMAR’s seats in the Greek parliament  drops to 14, while Samaras’ coalition government now holds just 165 seats in a parliament of 300.