Lawmakers are preparing for a crucial vote of confidence in the embattled socialist government of Greece in the last act of a political drama that has horrified the country's European partners that depend on loans and global markets.
Future Prime Minister, George Papandreou, depends on its own lawmakers in voting on Friday. The ruling party has a thin majority of two in the assembly of 300 seats, but a Socialist lawmaker said he will not return to government.
A socialist revolt and international pressure forced him to recant Papandreou Thursday plans for a referendum in the last agreement of international rescue of Greece, worth € 130 billion (U.S. $ 179 million).
Papandreou triggered a global crisis, when he announced the referendum on Monday as investors worried that the rejection of the plan of debt relief force fought a disorderly Greek default.