CRI听力:Greece to Vote Crucial Reform

Greece may have been offered an 89 billion euro bailout from international creditors in a last minute deal to keep the country in the euro… but Athens is rapidly legislating the required reforms before negotiations on the rescue can begin.

Last week the first round of measures were approved, but 39 MPs from the ruling Syriza party rejected the proposed budget cuts.

This time around Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was forced to launch an in-house offensive against his own party critics - urging them not to jeopardize Greece's chances of staying in the euro - which ultimately, he says, is what Greeks want.

Desmini Biri is an advisor for the Ministry of Health in Syriza who says the Prime Minister is trying to hold his party together.

I think he's trying very hard to maintain control. There are very deep ideological disagreements with the reforms proposed which makes this a very difficult task indeed. Syriza right now is actually at a cross roads I would say and it remains to be seen what is going to happen within the party.

The new 970 page list of measures include laws to speed up court processes rules hold banks more accountable for losses.

But voting on the two most controversial reforms - early retirement and tax hikes for farmers - has been postponed by the Greek government.

When probed about the delay, The European Union's Commission for Economic Affairs Pierre Moscovici denied there was an issue...

We know what the situation is in Greece and let's stick to the step by step approach and take each step in turn. Let’s be methodical, demanding but let’s not overdo things.

Hundreds of anti-establishment protestors gathered in Athens have added to criticism of the Prime Minister for U-turning on the Greek public's rejection of austerity measures in a referendum three weeks ago. But polls suggest many still support Alexis Tsipras.

Desmini Biri, again.

There's many many people including people from the general public who really sympathize with him very strongly after the agreement was signed off. That also in a way may put pressure on MPs to not kind of attack him personally.

Many are hopeful the bailout negotiations will begin later this week in order to conclude an agreement before an August 20 repayment to the European Central Bank.

On Wednesday the ECB boosted emergency to Greek lenders liquidity by 900 million euro, which experts say may only help for a number of days…

Despite evading a Greek exit, the country remains politically and economically fragile and many agree the crisis is far from over.

For CRI, I'm Sandra Gathmann in Brussels.