The parliamentary spokesman for New Democracy Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that the main opposition party would vote for the agreement of the loan extension, should it be tabled in Parliament.

Mr. Mitsotakis, who was being interviewed by the Parapolitika radio station, added that “a large part of the Varoufakis email has been ‘copy-pasted’ from the damn bailout” and predicted that a third bailout was imminent.

He argued that while a third bailout “is not good for the country”, the recent agreement includes “common sense reforms” that will allow the country to set aside “the false bailout-versus-anti-bailout dilemma”.

As for the budget shortfall, Mr. Mitsotakis claimed that it will be very difficult for the government to cover and estimated that the government will be unable to explain how it will cover the “major funding needs” in March.