BERLIN: An overwhelming majority of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives supported an extension of the Greek bailout in a test ballot yesterday, one day before a vote in the Bundestag lower house of parliament, according to particpants.
In the test ballot, 22 lawmakers in the conservative bloc opposed the extension and five abstained. In total, there are 311 lawmakers in the bloc, which includes members of the chancellor’s Christian Democratic Union and its sister party, the Bavarian Christian Social Union. — Reuters
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