2015-08-18telegraph.co.uk

Syriza's radical Left Platform - which makes up a third of the party's membership - has already threatened to form a breakaway faction under the leadership of firebrand former minister Panagiotis Lafazanis. Grassroots party members are set to hold an internal ballot over the party's position in September with talks that an election could be called for as early as September 20.

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Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing the biggest domestic rebellion in her 10 years in office over the aid package.

More than 60 of her Christian Democrat MPs rejected restarting talks over a new Greek rescue in an initial vote in July. This insurrection is set to mount when the package is put before a final parliamnetary vote on Wednesday, according to a key ally of the German premier.



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