AlHijjah 8, 1432, Nov 4, 2011, SPA -- Lawmakers are gearing up for a crucial confidence vote in Greece's beleaguered Socialist government, in the latest act of a political drama that has horrified the loan-dependent country's European partners and global markets, according to AP. Prime Minister George Papandreou's future depends on his own lawmakers in the vote late Friday. The ruling party has a tenuous majority of two in the 300-seat assembly, but one Socialist lawmaker has said she will not back the government. A Socialist revolt and international pressure forced Papandreou Thursday to retract plans for a referendum on Greece's latest international bailout agreement, worth 130 billion Euro ($179 billion). Papandreou sparked a global crisis when he announced the referendum Monday, as investors feared that rejection of the hard-fought debt relief plan would force a disorderly Greek default.
