Potami

In a sharply-worded statement, centrist Potami hit out at MP Giorgos Amyras who announced his departure from the party earlier on Monday.

By leaving the party shortly before the launch of debate on the Prespes name deal, Amyras has "chosen to join the rightwing pantheon as the MP who destroyed Potami's parliamentary group," Potami said in a statement.

Greek political party leaders have reacted cautiously after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed victory in a referendum on Sunday on granting him sweeping new powers.

SYRIZA MEP and Vice President of European Parliament Dimitris Papadimoulis said the referendum showed just how divided Turkey is and described the result as a disputed victory by Erdogan.

An independent lawmaker voted into Parliament with centrist To Potami joined the ranks on conservative New Democracy on Tuesday, boosting the opposition party's share of the 300-seat Parliament to 76 seats.

New Democracy, Iason Fotilas said, "is a force that continues to represent a fundamental factor in the country's European and democratic future."

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras needs to clarify his position towards a visit to three Aegean border islands by Defense Minister Panos Kammenos that was attended by officials from far-right Golden Dawn, lawmakers from socialist PASOK and centrist Potami told Parliament on Monday.

Prime Minister’s speech at the first cabinet meeting was just empty words, Potami party said in a statement noting that Alexis Tsipras offered nothing in terms of targets and reforms.

At least two opposition leaders took aim squarely at the radical leftist SYRIZA government on Tuesday for its “forced” decision to sell 14 regional airports to a German joint venture, a prospect that SYRIZA had politically eviscerated when it was in the opposition as a “sell-off” and “suspicious scandal”.