The statement of deputy Panagiotis Lafazanis that the party was not ready to rule has sparked angry reactions in the close circles of Alexis Tsipras. They said they would go forward with "those who are ready."

Rats are the first to escape from a sinking ship, a proverb says. Michalis Kasis and Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou, who changed several ministerial chairs during the government of George Papandreou, have left PASOK. Those familiar with the developments claim that there will be others.

The prosecutor had required a guilty verdict because "in a society that wants blood in the arena, he turned the country into the "Colosseum", into which he threw people and reputations."

Left parties turned the issue about the removal from air of the hosts of the morning show of the public ERT television into a political campaign.

The head of the Bank of Greece, George Provopoulos, receives a monthly net salary of 7,615 euro. This became clear after the Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras announced the data in public in the National Assembly on the day of parliamentary control this week.

Shareholders should retain 10% of the new shares issued because otherwise, the main equity will fall into the hands of the fund and banks will be actually nationalized.

The upper echelons of PASOK and Democratic Left refused to support the legalization of reforms as well. The leaders of two of the three parties in the government, Evangelos Venizelos and Fotis Kouvelis were absent from the vote on the package of changes, which political analysts interpret as a stab in the back for Prime Minister Antonis Samaras from New Democracy.