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42 SYRIZA MPs voted against, it was a single negative vote short of a coalition breakdown. Former Finance Minister Yannis Varoufakis, parliamentary speaker Zoe Kostantopoulou and her deputy Alexis Mitropoulos were among the lawmakers who voted against the memorandum.

A total of 222 deputies voted for the third Memorandum, 64 were against it, 11 either did not attend the plenary or abstained from voting. From the ruling coalition, only 118 MPs supported the rescue package, just two short of the "psychological" 120-MP threshold, as defined by the prime minister himself. The opposition MPs from New Democracy, PASOK and Potami voted for the Memorandum.

"Our choice was between memorandum in the Eurozone and memorandum on drachmas," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras emphatically admitted in his speech before the vote. Greek media reported that the PM has requested a vote of confidence from parliament, scheduled for 20 August. On the same date, Greece will expect the release of the first super-tranche worth €25 billion from the new bailout programme.

To be continued.