Kammenos says will call on PM to seek supermajority for name deal

The head of Greece's junior coalition partner and Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said on Wednesday he will ask Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to seek a supermajority of 180 MPs in the country's 300-seat House for the ratification of the name deal with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), instead of a regular majority of 151, given the importance of the issue.

Ο Έλληνας υπουργός Άμυνας, Πάνος Καμμένος (φώτο αρχείου) Source: APE

In comments following a meeting of the parliamentary group and executive secretariat of his party, Independent Greeks (ANEL), Kammenos reiterated that the nationalist party will never back the agreement reached between the leftist-led government and Skopje for North Macedonia, adding that he considers it unlikely it will be be approved by referendum in the neighboring country either.

Earlier, FYROM's parliament ratified the deal with 69 votes in favor in the 120-member House. The main opposition VMRO-DPMNE party boycotted the session.