ND's Voridis calls on ruling coalition to 'resolve the issue of its majority'

Voridis, speaking during a joint session of four Parliamentary committees to discuss a second package of prior actions demanded by Greece's creditors, said it was a "paradox on a global scale" for a government to be supported by the votes of the opposition.

He also asked that the government remove a reference in the introduction to the draft bill saying that it was tabled in Parliament "because it is the only text that has the agreement of the institutions."

"We cannot have such justifications coming [to Parliament] because they revoke the basic concept of national sovereignty of the legislative body," he pointed out.

He also called on SYRIZA to realise that it was coming to Parliament in search of a majority each time and therefore had no right to criticise those supporting the existence of its government.

"You cannot chastise us when we are exceeding ourselves, as we did in the last bill, when we voted to increase VAT that we had reduced, when we voted for the emergency contribution, when we voted for taxation of the islands when we had managed to preserve the taxation rate for the islands. We cannot listen to anti-memorandum rants," he said.