UPDATE: Final count: 229 yes.
The decision by the European Central Bank to force the closure of the Greek banks two weeks ago by freezing emergency liquidity assistance seems to have worked well to get the yes votes.
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Past the midnight deadline in Athens and members of Parliament are still debating.......
Speeches going on now in Parliament (in Greek)...
You can also listen to the votes when they finally start. Nai means yes, and OXI means No.
The Guardian posting live coverage of Parliament....
Will Alexis Tspiras still be Prime Minister of Greece next week? He is reportedly not even sticking around for the debate but has left the building.
A Greek friend of mine said Tspiras gambled with the lives of 11 million people and lost.
How Germany Beat Greece In Liar's Poker
Many observers are wondering how the left-populist renegades of Greece's Syriza party, which rose to power in January on the promise of delivering relief from austerity and renewed its mandate with a massive victory in the July 5 referendum, managed to negotiate a bailout deal on Monday that is substantially worse than what was available to Greece before Syriza took office.
Syriza's radical activists divided over backing austerity package – and Tsipras
Some of Syriza’s disenchanted members are ambivalent about leaving the eurozone. “It’s not about the coin we use,” said Teskou. But most are angry that Tsipras did not seriously consider Grexit as an option, much less formulate a plan to achieve it. As a result, Tsipras was unable to use the mandate provided to him by the recent referendum as an effective bargaining chip in the last round of negotiations. “In my opinion,” said Gkouvas, “they didn’t go back to Brussels this week as if they had the backing of the result of the referendum.” Since Tsipras had no serious plan to leave the euro, the thinking goes, by extension he had no means of calling the troika’s bluff.
I am just home and for the last 30 minutes or so trying to catch up. Votes should start soon.