Alexis Tsipras

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras won the confidence vote in Greek parliament on Tuesday. He is to form a government consisting of his left-wing party SYRIZA and coalition partner, the righ-wing conservatives from ANEL.

Greece's SYRIZA-led government has won a confidence vote in Parliament, ahead of high-stakes talks in Brussels with bailout creditors.

Lawmakers voted 162-137 for Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' government, elected on January 25 on a platform pledging to radically overhaul austerity in the financially struggling country.

Greece's prime minister Alexis Tsipras said Tuesday that the country "cannot return to an age of bailouts and suppression," ahead of critical talks with Athens's EU creditors.

"There is no return," he said in a speech to parliament the day before Greece presents a proposal for a new reform deal at an extraordinary meeting of eurozone foreign ministers in Brussels. [AFP]

Greece’s Parliament provided a widely expected vote of confidence to the leftist-dominated SYRIZA coalition government early Wednesday morning, hours before a crucial Eurogroup meeting is expected to signal whether eurozone lenders will grant the recession-plagued country a credit line — until the summer — without austerity-mandated strings attached.

“We face a critical milestone”.

“There is no way back. There is no backtracking to Memorandums”, said the Greek Prime Minister in Parliament, completing the round of addresses before asking MPs to give a vote of confidence.

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias repeated the new Greek government?s claim for war reparations from Germany Tuesday during a joint news conference with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin.

Germany?s finance minister took a tough line against Greece over its bailout on Tuesday, tempering market hopes that a deal between Athens and its European creditors was in the works.

The Greek government is heading into a tough financial negotiation with European Union partners with overhelming support at home for its positions, a poll showed on Tuesday.

An ALCO survey of 821 people across Greece found 75 percent support for the government's negotiating stance and 67 percent for its overall policies as laid out this week in parliament.

 Prokopis Pavlopoulos nominated as candidate for president

Greece is going ahead with reform measures flouting its bailout obligations, with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Tuesday calling for parliament to vote on a series of social reform bills at the end of the week.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos, a centre-right moderate, will be the government's candidate for president, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said.

Speaking to SYRIZA's parliamentary group on Tuesday, Tsipras said the decision to nominate the former conservative Interior Minister reflected the need for political and social consensus.