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Updated Saturday, February 11, 2012 0:03 am TWN, By Nicholas Paphitis ,AP



	Riot police clash with a protester in Athens, Friday, Feb. 10. Thousands took to the streets of Athens as unions launched a two-day general strike against planned austerity measures on Friday, a day after Greece's crucial international bailout was put in limbo by its partners in the 17-nation eurozone. (AP) Enlarge Photo

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Greece strikes as bailout deal hangs in limbo

ATHENS, Greece -- The leader of a small partner in Greece's coalition government said Friday his party would vote against the latest round of austerity measures required for a massive new bailout deal — despite having backed the measures a day earlier.

George Karatzaferis, leader of the rightist LAOS party, said Friday that he would now vote against the government proposal expected to come to parliament late Sunday.

LAOS has 16 deputies in parliament in a coalition backed by 252 lawmakers. If the two other major parties, the Socialists and the conservatives, approve the austerity package, it would still pass.

Karatzaferis insisted it was not his intention to withdraw from the government, and urged other countries in the European Union to challenge what he described as Germany's domination of the union.

“Of course we do not want to be outside the EU, but we can get by without being under the German jackboot,” he told a news conference.

“Like all Greeks, I am very irritated ... by this humiliation. They have stolen our pride. I cannot tolerate this. I cannot allow it, even if I have to starve.”

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