The two largest employee trade unions in the country announced another 48-hour strike. Public and private employees will gather together to block the activities in the country on the day of the vote on the mid-term recovery program.

The results of the polls show that New Democracy is the first in the preferences of the Greeks, but the rates of both major political parties are historically low.

The final implementation of the measures of additional taxation of personal income and increases in taxation of buildings will be decided after this visit. The government hopes to raise another 1.6 billion euros to reduce the deficit to 6.4% of the GDP by the end of the year.

The members of Parliament supported Papandreou and his team with 155 votes "for" and 143 "against". Meanwhile, thousands of citizens chanted that the politicians will not find a single voting-paper in the ballot-boxes in the next elections and threatened that they will not allow them to move freely.

While European politicians urge Greece to immediately tighten its finances, discontented people are gathering around the Parliament, reports Anastasia Balezdrova from Syntagma Square.

The program for cost reductions in the public sector is running in the healthcare system too. The Minister Andreas Loverdos announced that the number of clinics will be reduced from 1900 to 1600, and the administrations of some hospitals will merge and their number will decrease from 139 to 80. But the Minister insists on further mergers.

Capital markets are still watching Greece and Europe promised it would not allow the country to sink.