In a statement issued after the vote in parliament, which the government won with the help of pro-European opposition parties, Tsipras said he had a "strong mandate to complete the negotiations to reach an economically viable and socially fair agreement".
He made no mention of rebels within his own leftwing SYRIZA party who withheld support for the measures but said his focus was on completing the negotiations. "The priority now is to have a positive outcome to the negotiations. Everything else in its own time," he said.
His last reference was aimed at the 17 dissenters in his own party, who failed to vote "Yes" in the parliamentary debate on Friday night. Add to those another 15 MPs who issued a statement after the vote saying they voted "Yes" to the negotiations but will vote "No" to recessionary measures of a potential vote and you have the picture of a fractured party.
Initial reports indicate that the PM will be committing a major reshuffle come Monday, if the negotiations are successful, in order to deal with two of his cabinet ministers (Lafazanis, Stratoulis), who voted "present" in the parliamentary vote.
It is also rumored that if idiosyncratic House speaker Zoe Konstandopoulou doesn't resign her post after voting "present" in last night's vote, Tsipras will be officially asking for her replacement.
Other reports about asking socialist PASOK and centrist The River parties to join a newly reshuffled coalition government, are rather premature at the moment, but all possibilities are open.
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