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| Greece crisis: PM Tsipras 'to hold September election' | |
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| Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is set to call a snap election for 20 September, according to Greek media. | |
| Mr Tsipras has faced a rebellion within his ruling Syriza party over a new bailout deal which has been agreed with international creditors. | |
| Greece received the first €13bn ($14.5bn) tranche on Thursday, allowing it to repay a debt to the European Central Bank and avoid a messy default. | |
| But the austerity measures needed for the deal angered many in his party. | |
| Mr Tsipras had to agree to further painful state sector cuts, including far-reaching pension reforms, in exchange for the bailout - and keeping Greece in the eurozone. | |
| The overall bailout package is worth about €86bn over three years. | |
| Lost majority | |
| Mr Tsipras is to make a televised state address later on Thursday. | |
| He is set to submit his resignation to the president to clear the way for the elections, the media reports said. | |
| Energy and Environment Minister Panos Skourletis said on state TV: "The certainty is that the need for elections has arisen." | |
| Dozens of Syriza MPs had opposed the bailout in the Greek parliamentary vote that approved the deal. | |
| The rebellion meant Mr Tsipras, who was elected this January, had effectively lost his parliamentary majority. | |
| Mr Tsipras had won power on a manifesto of opposing the stringent austerity conditions that he has now accepted. | |
| He said he was forced to do so because a majority of Greeks wanted to stay in the eurozone, and this could not be achieved in any other way. | |
| Greece remains under strict capital controls, with weekly limits on cash withdrawals for Greek citizens. | |
| If a government resigns within a year of election, the constitution requires the president to ask the second-largest party - in this case the conservative New Democracy - to try to form an administration. | |
| If this fails, the next largest party must be given a chance. However, analysts say the mandates can be handed back to the president to allow the snap election to go ahead. |